When Fallon Jones took over the family business, he moved Jones & Jones headquarters to Scargill Cove, a secluded coastal town in Northern California. The Cove suits him just fine, as a confirmed recluse . . . and as an investigator of the paranormal. The Cove is a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town draws misfits and drifters like moths to a flame.
Isabella Valdez is used to changing apartments, jobs, even names and Social Security numbers at the drop of a hat — but this is too much. She’s been framed by some very dangerous men. They may be behind the disappearance of her grandmother. And now they’ve sent their thugs after Isabella. She would be dead if her gift of intuition hadn’t told her to run.
So she’s fled to California — and found employment with Fallon Jones. It’s been only a few days, but Fallon doesn’t remember life before his new assistant. Isabella’s already organized his pathologically chaotic office, and she doesn’t bat an eye at the psychic aspect of his job. She’s a kindred spirit, sanctuary from a world that considers his talents a form of madness. The surest sign that he’s falling for her? He doesn’t even mind her cheery personality.
But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused with dark energy, Fallon and Isabella are dragged into the secret history of Scargill Cove. Next thing they know, they’re fighting for their lives in an abandoned underground lab — not exactly an ideal first date. Now their lives depend on the combined strength of their powers as they unravel a cutthroat conspiracy with roots in the Jones family business . . . and Isabella’s family tree.
Book 1 of the Looking Glass Trilogy
Book 10 of the Arcane Society series
Sparrowgal's rating: 7/10
Sparrowgal's thoughts - Spoiler Alert!
I just couldn't get my head around their romance at first. It was very whirlwind. I would have thought that Fallon, with his conspiracy theories from his Chaos Theory talent - seeing random items and somehow connecting them all into one big theory - would be more suspicious of Isabella and her sudden arrival in Scargill Cove, and also his inability to discover more of her history. That's probably why I wasn't that enamoured with this book, though by the end they do make a great couple. Isabella's talent is intuition and she comes from a conspiracy theory family (her grandmother writes the Iceberg Conspiracy Website). I do like Isabella though. She's forward, headstrong, and understands Fallon completely.
In this book, a cache of psi powered toys and artifacts has been guarded for years by the local residents of Scargill Cove. Years ago there was a cult of sorts and the leaders of that cult discovered the cache of psi based weapons, and squabbled between themselves and ended up dying or missing. So the cache was never discovered. However, branches of Nightshade have decided to branch out and acquire psi-infused weapons, in particular some pieces done by Millicent Bridewell, who in the Victorian era was very talented at creating and handling psi in glass. By the end of the book, one of the curators of the Arcane Museum, Sylvia Tremont, was responsible for thefts of weapon type artifacts from the museum and turned out to be a direct descendant of Millicent Bridewell. She also knows how to handle the psi from those artifacts.
There was a subplot within about trying to overthrow the power of the Jones family from Jones and Jones, and also as head of the Arcane society - partly engineered by Victoria Knight who used the emnity between the Austin family and Adrian Spangler to the Jones' to try to push her agenda. However, that didn't work. Isabella somehow foiled the plans.
At the end, Victoria Knight is having an affair with Spangler, two powerful talents, both working for the opposing side. No doubt they will feature in the next novel.
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