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Book Review of Crystal Gardens (Ladies of Lantern Street, Bk 1)

Crystal Gardens (Ladies of Lantern Street, Bk 1)
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Another of Amanda Quick's historical paranormal books. Once again she pulls the reader in and makes you want to get right down to helping her solve the mystery. She follows her usual formula of a struggling middle class woman, innocent about men but intelligent and curious about everything around her. In this case our lady has a paranormal ability to see peoples auras and to also control their auras. She's a member of a Victorian era detective agency that works hires ladies with paranormal ability to work as ladies companions to help members of a family determine when they are being taken advantage of. She's ran afoul of a couple of people who did not want to be found out and has escaped to the country for a while and to spend time writing chapters of a serial novel. There she meets a titled gentleman who comes from a family with paranormal abilities who has inherited an estate that has been owned and occupied by an uncle who experimented with plants. It is rumored that the place has gold from the times of the Romans stored there. Well, I want tell the whole story. Just know that Amanda keeps the plot moving along at her usual place and the sparks flying between our heroes.