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THE PHENOMENAL NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A woman with a psychic talent for perceiving deception meets a man who overwhelms her senses with premonitions of danger-and desire...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #319236 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-05
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.07" h x 5.31" w x 8.72" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

From Publishers Weekly
This spirited paranormal romance is the latest in Krentz's Arcane Society series (which includes some novels, like the recent Second Sight, written as Amanda Quick). Clare Lancaster, like her parents and grandparents, is a member of the clandestine Arcane Society, an association of parasensitives who are dedicated to the study of the paranormal. Clare's extraordinary abilities as a human lie detector make even other paranormals uneasy, with the exception of her half-sister Elizabeth. Elizabeth's troubled marriage brings Clare to Arizona and into the family circle. There, Clare finally meets Archer Glazebrook, her biological father, but she also meets Jake Salter, another highly talented parasensitive who turns out to be on assignment from Jones & Jones (the investigative arm of the Arcane Society) to track down a possible plot to take over the society. The cabal he's after has some connection to the still-unsolved murder of Clare's objectionable brother-in-law months before. More murders follow, and Jake and Clare have to work together to save themselves and the society. Krentz delivers another evocative romance, complete with engaging dialogue and explicit sex scenes, but the real meat of the plot concerns the sleuthing: that a charismatic alpha male finally meets his mate is icing on another densely plotted Krentz confection. (Jan.)
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From Booklist
As a level 10 para-sensitive, Clare Lancaster can tell for certain when someone is telling the truth. So Clare knows that her half-sister, Elizabeth Glazebrook, isn't lying when she says her husband, Brad McAllister, is trying to kill her. But Brad is murdered instead, and as the first person to find his body, Clare becomes the Stone Canyon Police Department's favorite suspect. With no evidence to tie her to the crime, Clare is allowed to return to her old life in San Francisco. But six months later, her father, Archer, summons her back to Phoenix. Her unique gift tells her not only that there is more to her father's new business "consultant" Jake Salter than he would like her to believe but also that she is in grave danger. Writing as Amanda Quick, Krentz introduced the Arcane Society, a group dedicated to psychic research and investigation, in Second Sight (2006), her latest historical romance. Now Krentz successfully brings the concept into the present in a seductive, sharply witty, and paranormal-flavored thriller in which she deftly infuses an expertly crafted plot with sizzling sexual chemistry between two intriguing protagonists to create another of her supremely addictive tales of romantic suspense. John Charles
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About the Author
Jayne Ann Krentz is the author of over 122 romances, including 27 New York Times bestsellers under various pen names. Before beginning her writing career, she earned a B.A. in History at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an M.A. in Library Science from San Jose State University. She then launched a successful career as a corporate and academic librarian, during which time she worked at Duke University's library.

Krentz began writing serial romances in the late 1970s for MacFadden and Dell Candlelight Ecstasy. She moved on to write for Silhouette and Harlequin before turning exclusively to writing novels in the early 1990s. In total, there are over 23 million copies in print of her books. In addition to writing fiction, Krentz is the editor and a contributor to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a non-fiction essay collection that won the prestigious Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies. Krentz has also been awarded the Jane Austen Commemorative Medal from Romantic Times magazine for her efforts in educating the public on behalf of romantic fiction.

In addition to writing, Krentz sits on the Advisory Board for the Writers Program at the University of Washington Extension Program. She also enjoys vegetarian cooking and lives in Seattle with her husband.