Second Sight by Amanda Quick (aka Janye Ann Krentz)

#1 in the Arcane Society series

Photographer Venetia Milton considers herself a spinster in Victorian London. Economically strapped, she's also the sole support of her aunt and younger siblings. Things start to look up when she is chosen to photograph a collection of artifacts belonging to the Arcane Society, a 200-year-old clandestine organization founded by an alchemist. The collection is housed in an isolated gothic mansion, and Venetia finds herself there in the company of handsome and mysterious Gabriel Jones. Deciding that it's now or never for love, Venetia seduces him, only to lose the man of her dreams in a fire set by an unknown enemy.Venetia resourcefully moves on, opening a portrait shop and assuming the persona of Gabriel's grieving widow. Venetia, now the talented photographer, Mrs. Jones, has becomes the toast of London, when her dead husband shows up her doorstep very much alive. Now she has to figure out how to adapt herself to this latest turn of events.

As usual Amanda Quick (aka Janye Ann Krentz) is great at merging suspense, romance and some good old fashioned paranormal in the mix for a fun historical romance novel.

I'm more found of her more science fiction romance books she writes under the name Jayne Castle but I had heard about this series so thought I would give it a try. Of course it seemed familiar as I realized I had read it just over 2 years ago right before I moved back to Phoenix. But I read it again anyway, just to freshen my memory. She is a fun and easy read.