Burning Lamp by Amanda Quick

Quick, Amanda.  Burning Lamp.

I pulled this one from the "new book" shelf at the library, noted that it was an Arcane Society Novel, but not that it was the second book in a trilogy.

So...the novel is part romance and part paranormal.  Nothing deep, but a little light fun.  "The Widow" is a social reformer who has been raiding various brothels and freeing the women in them, enabling them to prepare themselves for a better life.

Enter Griffin Winter, a London crime lord, who thinks "The Widow" may possess a dream light talent, and who may be able to help save him from a family curse.  Instant attraction between the two, although they appear to be at cross-purposes.

You know where this is going, right?  The two team up and take on evil-doers.

Although the novel is the second one in the trilogy, enough background is given that you don't really need to have read the first novel to get a handle on this one.  One reason is that a couple of hundred years have passed and the characters in the first novel are ancestors (who created a lot of problems) to some of the characters in Burning Lamp.  The same situation will be true in the final novel that will take place in future generations.

Fiction.  Supernatural/Mystery.  2010.  328 pages.