Second Sight is a thematically rich study in fragile memories and outright duplicity.

Now is as good a time as any to relaunch the investigation. When the police unearth a cache of human bones near a historic homestead called the Castle, Eliza cannot help but remember the disappearance of her best friend, still unsolved, shortly after a party at the Castle more than two decades ago. Complicating matters, Eliza is a Kinsale hometown girl, thus fully rendering her persona non grata with a broad swath of the population. Venetia Miltons memories of a romantic night with Gabriel Jones-an alchemists descendant-are shattered soon. She writes historical romance novels under. Amanda Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers. Lawyer Eliza Carmody represents what the townspeople of Kinsale, Australia, consider to be the wrong side of a class-action suit against an electric company they deem responsible for starting a fatal bushfire. 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. A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWhile photographing artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist. Second Sight is the opening book in the Arcane Society series, and if its any indication of whats to come, the series may be one of Quicks best.'-The State (Columbia, SC) About the Author. I’m going to bring it out of retirement this month, however, for Aoife Clifford’s Second Sight, which is indeed-wait for it-gripping. This is not a directive I arrived at easily, having already (ab)used that word 12,587 times before, give or take. “Do not use the word gripping,” I admonish myself when writing this column each month.

Second Sight by Amanda Quick