{"id":1694,"date":"2015-02-13T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2020-08-06T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T23:38:15","slug":"the-third-circle-by-amanda-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/1694\/the-third-circle-by-amanda-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Third Circle\u201d by Amanda Quick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leona Hewitt has secret\u00adly made her way into Lord Del\u00adbridge\u2019s pri\u00advate muse\u00adum to retrieve a rel\u00adic stolen from her fam\u00adi\u00adly. But some\u00adone else is in the dim\u00adly lit gallery on the same errand: a tall, black cloaked man whose very voice is enough to cause her to fall into a trance.<\/p>\n

Thad\u00addeus Ware, a mes\u00admerist with psy\u00adchic gifts, is accus\u00adtomed to fear\u00adful reac\u00adtions from others\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwomen, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar. After all, a man who can con\u00adtrol the minds of oth\u00aders could rob a lady of her virtue\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcompletely unbe\u00adknownst to her. But Leona shows no trace of hys\u00adte\u00adria in his pres\u00adence. A gift\u00aded crys\u00adtal work\u00ader, she exerts a rather hyp\u00adnot\u00adic pow\u00ader over the hyp\u00adno\u00adtist him\u00adself. And she is deter\u00admined to keep the cov\u00adet\u00aded crys\u00adtal they man\u00adage to recov\u00ader by giv\u00ading him the slip at a run-down Lon\u00addon inn.<\/p>\n

Thad\u00addeus, on assign\u00adment for the Arcane Soci\u00adety, knows the men\u00adace Leona is court\u00ading by abscond\u00ading with the crys\u00adtal. A source of remark\u00adable ener\u00adgy, it holds the poten\u00adtial for great destruc\u00adtion. Lord Del\u00adbridge has already killed to acquire the crys\u00adtal, his key to mem\u00adber\u00adship in the elite, shad\u00adowy group known as the Third Cir\u00adcle. And, with the help of a ruth\u00adless hunter of preter\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal skill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d dubbed the Mid\u00adnight Mon\u00adster by the press \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Del\u00adbridge intends to find Leona. With the stolen crys\u00adtal in their pos\u00adses\u00adsion, the dan\u00adger is only beginning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two very dri\u00adven indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals, both with agen\u00addas that set them against each oth\u00ader, both with pas\u00adsions that draw them together.<\/p>\n

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Thad\u00addeus can com\u00admand vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly any\u00adone by his pow\u00ader of psy\u00adchic mes\u00admerism, which iso\u00adlates him from vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly any human con\u00adtact, only to dis\u00adcov\u00ader Leona, whose own psy\u00adchic gifts allowed her to break his com\u00admand. She inter\u00adfered with his mis\u00adsion to recov\u00ader the lost auro\u00adra stone<\/em>, even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly los\u00ading to her wiles, but she also saved his life and his san\u00adi\u00adty through her gift of crys\u00adtal manipulation.<\/p>\n

Leona has gone to great lengths to recov\u00ader her fam\u00adi\u00adly\u2019s lost heir\u00adloom, a fabled crys\u00adtal owned by her famous ances\u00adtress, the fabled Sybil the Vir\u00adgin Sor\u00adcer\u00adess, only to encounter Thad\u00addeus on the same quest. His insis\u00adtence tak\u00ading pos\u00adses\u00adsion of the auro\u00adra stone<\/em> was only the lat\u00adest poten\u00adtial set\u00adback she encoun\u00adtered, but with\u00adout his aid, she would have died a tor\u00adtur\u00adous death many times over.<\/p>\n

Against them both are Lord Del\u00adbridge, a mem\u00adber of the secre\u00adtive Arcane Soci\u00adety of psy\u00adchic researchers and prac\u00adti\u00adtion\u00aders, of whom Thadeus is also a mem\u00adber, a psy\u00adchic hunter of sorts, employed in inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtions involv\u00ading oth\u00ader mem\u00adbers of the Soci\u00adety. Del\u00adbridge also employs a sin\u00adis\u00adter sci\u00aden\u00adtist and alchemist and a psy\u00adchic and psy\u00adchot\u00adic mur\u00adder\u00ader. Behind them is the occult group of the Third Cir\u00adcle, who plan to use both the auro\u00adra stone<\/em> and Leona in aid\u00ading them unlock the secrets of her ances\u00adtress Sybil, and are more than will\u00ading to kid\u00adnap and mur\u00adder to gain their objectives.<\/p>\n

As this is a romance nov\u00adel, and a for\u00admu\u00adla\u00adic one, at that, Thad\u00addeus and Leona pair up to counter all threats and dis\u00adcov\u00ader true love in the process.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2 Notes<\/h2>\n