Firelight

Firelight is a paranormal romance by the American writer Kristen Callihan, published in 2012. It sets magic inside a Victorian London of masked balls and ruined fortunes, and it puts the two of them at the centre of a murder case.

Miranda Ellis has carried her gift since birth and has spent her life learning to control a power that she did not ask for. One mistake that cannot be undone destroys her family's money and leaves her married to Lord Benjamin Archer, the most notorious nobleman in London.

Archer is no ordinary man. He conceals his disfigured face behind masks and believes it is selfish of him to have taken a wife at all, and yet he is drawn to a woman whose touch gives him a feeling he had given up on. When he is accused of a series of murders, he gives way to the nature he has been hiding, and the novel becomes as much a mystery as a romance. The accusation forces him out of the retirement he had made for himself, and Miranda has to decide what she is willing to believe about the man she married.