White Lies

The Arcane Society, Book 2

Plot

SETTING: Stone Canyon, Arizona. 21st Century Think you cant get a decent date? Imagine how depressing things are when you know for sure that the guy is lying when he says hell call Clare Lancaster is a Level Ten para-sensitive and a human lie detector. She is also a member of the modern day Arcane Society. Over the years she has come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talent is doomed to have relationship issues. Clare has even been rejected as unmatchable by the Societys matchmaking agency, arcanematch.com. In a way, Clares whole life has been a lie. Now, however, she has just met the half sister and family whom she never knew until seven months ago. Her father summons her from California to play a role in his business empire. Clare rejects the offer. But after meeting Jake Salter, Archer Lancasters financial consultant, she is convinced that things arent what they seem. Salters careful conversation seems to walk a delicate line between truth and deception. Something sparks and sizzles between them something more than the usual electricity between a man and a woman. Jake Salter is also a Level Ten para-sensitive with some dangerous psychic talents of his own. He, too, has been declared unmatchable by the Societys matchmakers. Each knows that the other is keeping secrets. Caught in a dizzying storm of lies and half-truths, Jake and Clare plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their special gifts. Together they must overcome their mutual distrust in order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder with tentacles that go deep into the very heart of the Arcane Society.