Either way, Virginia was in danger and Owen was determined to protect her.ĭuring their investigation, the duo encounters strange clockwork automatons which can produce hallucinations, unconsciousness and kill when necessary.
Virgina was the intended victim or someone wanted to frame her for the murder. Owen believes that Lady Hollister killed her husband. With Virginia, he was tender, protective and romantic. Virgina was strong, determined, calm and collected in a crisis. Virginia and Owen form an uneasy alliance. He hunts psychic criminals and is in danger of being turned into a Nightwalker. J & J Agency has employed him as a last resort in the case of the missing glassreaders. Owen was a psychic hunter, an assassin for hire. Virginia is rescued by Owen Sweetwater, a researcher who exposes psychic charlatans. The dead man in the mirrored room is Lord Hollister. She has no memory of what happened or how she got there. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Virginia wakes up in bed next to a dead body. And if her abilities can be relied upon in the midst of great danger, they just might be the key to his investigation. Virginia’s powers are real-and so is the power she exerts over him simply with her presence. The high-society types of the exclusive Arcane Society would consider Virginia an illusionist, a charlatan, even a criminal. Owen Sweetwater inherited his family’s talent for hunting the psychical monsters who prey on London’s women and children, and his investigation into the deaths of two glass-readers has led him here.
With no apparent way in or out, she’s rescued by a man she’s met only once before, but won’t soon forget. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpowers her senses. Virginia Dean wakes at midnight beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening’s events. A Victorian glass-reader and a psychic investigator play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a killer in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling Looking Glass Trilogy.
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