Second Sight

In financial straits and on a sure path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House, far from societya (TM)s prying eyes, would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the relics and artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an eccentric alchemist. And the alchemista (TM)s descendant - her employer, Mr. Gabriel Jones - had the eyes of a sorcerer . . . After a night to remember, Venetia is prepared to cherish the memories of her romantic encounter and move on, but she is shattered when, shortly after their night together, she reads of Jonesa (TM)s death in the papers. As a private tribute to her one-time lover, she adopts the name a oeMrs. Jonesa and the guise of a respectable widow, and embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to a oeseea beyond her subjects and capture that quality in her photography makes her photo