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    <body><![CDATA[This is another great entry in the Arcane Society series. I love these books. In this one, the heroine has a botany talent that's pretty interesting and helpful in solving crimes. The hero is a Jones, but they fit together well, and she actually realizes it. They don't spend three-fourths of the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52493519">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lucinda Bromley is a notorious woman in this historical-and-psychic-romance-mystery.  The Arcane Society novels span two authors -- Quick-- and her contemporary counterpart Jayne Ann Krentz.  Lucinda has a talent for detecting poisons and for botany.  She's an expert in healing and herbal tinctures ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61243932">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, the Arcane Society series finally brings us the story of Caleb Jones and the founding of Jones and Jones.  Another delightful romp.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent addition to the Arcane Society saga,back to the Victorian inception of the Jones and Jones Investigative Society.  Caleb Jones is an intense investigator who seems to be oblivious of Polite Society's dictates in his singleminded pursuit of truth.  He struggles with the legacy of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53683352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give this book four and a half stars I would!  Four stars just doesn’t seem like enough but at the same time I hesitate to give it five stars.  It was one of the better books from the Arcane series by Quick/Krentz that I have read.  I have enjoyed all of them but this one I enjoyed more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50053393">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amanda Quick offers what you've been expecting - creativity, paranormal skills, a love affair, and an interesting and complicated mystery digging up past events and tying things together.<br/><br/>I don't want to give you too much information.  This is a quick and enjoyable read after all.  This t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66135568">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was skeptical after reading Quick's last historical book in the Arcane series because I do prefer Jayne Anne Krentz's modern day books in the series.  Having said that, I was very surprised by this story in the series.  Very well written and the storyline moved at a fast pace; keeping you very int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61287417">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I still enjoy reading about the Aracne Society, but there was something lacking in this one. I enjoyed the characters very much, but found the plot lacking. Quite frankly, there wasn't much going on in this book. I found myself at least 200 pages in before anything more interesting than heated debat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53367934">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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