(Arcane Society #9) Midnight Crystal by Amanda Quick

Author:Amanda Quick [Quick, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mom 05/31/2014
ISBN: 9780515148367
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TWO HOURS LATER, SHE FOUND WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING for. She picked up the phone and entered Adam’s private code.

“Hello, Marlowe.”

She tried to ignore the sexy, intimate tone in his voice, but the truth was, she was getting addicted to it.

“I’ve been going through some old J&J records. The private case files of Caleb and Lucinda Jones.”

“The founders of Jones & Jones?”

“You know the history?”

“My family has always kept close tabs on yours. Besides, one of my ancestors, Griffin Winters, had some dealings with J&J back in the days when Caleb and Lucinda Jones ran the agency.” Adam paused a beat. “Something to do with an old lamp, as I recall.”

“It’s all here in the files. But there’s some other information, as well. In the course of that case, some odd red crystal weapons showed up. According to Caleb Jones’s notes, they could be tuned in a way that allowed a person with talent to enhance and focus his natural psychic energy.”

“You’re thinking there’s a connection to the crystals in those flashlights?”

“Well, the color of the crystals is different, but, yes, I think there is a link.” She pulled the second volume closer and peered at the page. “What’s more, weapons of a similar nature showed up again in the early twenty-first century, according to the case files of Fallon Jones. Again, the crystals weren’t red, but I think we’re talking about the same kind of technology.”

“Old Earth technology?”

“Old Earth alchemy, to be precise.”

“Alchemy was a dead science by the nineteenth century,” Adam said.

“Got news for you. Alchemy has never been dead within Arcane. The Society was founded on alchemical science.”

“Do you think the crystal guns we took off that pair last night date from the nineteenth or twenty-first century?”

“No. Those flashlight devices are definitely of modern manufacture. I can sense the age of artifacts, remember?”

“That leaves us with two possibilities,” Adam said. “The first is that someone rediscovered the same alchemical technology that others discovered at various points in the past.”

“Coincidence and serendipity happen,” Marlowe said. “The wheel was probably invented several times by a number of different people before it caught on.”

“The second possibility is that someone got hold of some of those old Arcane files that you’re looking at and found the method for creating the crystals.”

“Here’s the interesting part. Caleb and Fallon Jones deliberately did not include the instructions in their records. They both believed that the crystals were too dangerous.”

“So we’re going with the coincidence and serendipity theory.”

She cleared her throat. “Actually, there’s another explanation.”

“Yeah?”

“Turns out that the original set of instructions for manufacturing talent-enhancing crystals came from the early works of Nicholas Winters.”

There was a long silence on the other end of the line.

“That old alchemical recipe,” Adam said neutrally.

“Listen, I understand the need to keep family secrets, believe me. But in this case—” She stopped mid-sentence because the phone was ringing. “That’s my other line. Hold on.”

She heard Rick answer.

“She’s with a client, Dr. Raymond. Let me see if she’s available.”

“I’m available,” she called into the other room.

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