Author: Amanda Quick
Narrator: Islay Jacobs
Series: The Arcane Society (Book 1)
Publication: Tantor Audio (March 28, 2023)
Length: 9 hours and 50 minutes
Description: New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick invites you to experience a thrilling adventure filled with the lure of ancient secrets and the simmering passions of the Victorian age in the first Arcane Society novel.
Venetia Milton's memories of a romantic night with Gabriel Jones—an alchemist's descendant—are shattered soon thereafter by news of his death. Adopting the guise of his respectable widow, she embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to "see" beyond her subjects makes her photographs highly prized.
But Venetia's romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into her life. And someone he is tracking will go to any lengths, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary secret that has been lost for centuries. Someone who believes that as the "wife" of Mr. Jones, Venetia is the key . . .
My Thoughts: Photographer Venetia Milton is hired by Gabriel Jones of the Arcane Society to photograph some newly discovered relics. When the home is invaded, Venetia manages to escape through a series of tunnels and make her way home but not before she had an interlude of passion with Jones.
Hearing of his death, Venetia is heartbroken but determined to use the large fee paid by the Arcane Society to relocate her family and business to London and the take the name Mrs. Jones as her new business name.
Things go awry when a villain decides that Venetia knows the secrets of the artifacts and begins having her watched. They go further awry when Gabriel Jones reappears from his supposed death to protect her from the villain.
Forced to deal with a "husband" she thought dead and some suspicious circumstances including finding the body of the man who had been hired to follow her, Venetia and Gabriel need to team up to discover the various villains and fall in love along the way.
This is the first of the books in the Arcane Society series. Its setting is Victorian London. I love the romance between Venetia and Gabriel.
I bought this one from Chirp Audiobooks March 7, 2025. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one from Chirp Audiobooks March 7, 2025. You can buy your copy here.
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