Second Sight / Amanda Quick 305 p. First in Series

This first in the Arcane Society novels introduces Venetia Milton and Gabriel Jones.  Gabriel hires Venetia to photograph all the treasures of the Arcane Society, a 200 year old highly secretive organization founded by an alchemist.  Venetia decides the remote location, far from family and London's gossip driven society, is the place to have a one-night fling with Gabriel.  Upon reading of his death, Venetia adopts Mrs. Jones as her professional name and portrays herself as a widow.  She embarks upon a career as a photographer in London, where her gift of  'seeing' beyond her subjects, allows her to capture a quality that makes her photographs very desired by the fashionable elite.  When Gabriel strolls back into her life, she finds herself somewhat bound to him, as he seeks to find the someone who goes to any length even murder to gain the Arcane Society's ancient secret.  A romantic story involving the paranormal set in Victorian times is deftly handled by Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz).