The Last Room at the Grey Bell
Snowed in at a Highland inn with one room left, she agreed to share it with a stranger who had come to ring a bell for the dead.
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The Apothecary of Veil Street
The shop at 17 Veil Street had no sign. This was deliberate. The people who needed to find it would find it, drawn by word of mouth passed in undertones at kitchen tables and whispered across pharmacy counters when the pharmacist had nothing left to offer. The people who did not need to find it…
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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
Maren Solvik had not set foot on Heksholmen in fourteen years, and she had planned to extend that record indefinitely. The island — a spur of black rock jutting from the Norwegian Sea like a clenched fist — held nothing for her but memories she had spent her adult life learning to outrun. The lighthouse….
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The Glassblower’s Requiem
The church of St. Crispin the Martyr had been bombed in 1941, rebuilt in 1953, and was now, in the wet autumn of the present day, losing its windows. Not to vandals or weather, but to something more insidious: the lead cames that held the stained glass panels were crystallising, turning brittle with age and…
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The Bellringer of Saint Elara
The bells of Saint Elara had been silent for eleven years when Margaux Delacroix arrived to restore them. The church stood at the edge of the village of Briarthorn, where the Somerset levels met the Mendip Hills in a disputed borderland of mist and ancient grievance. It was a building of considerable beauty and even…
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The Keeper of Ashworth Abbey
Snowbound in a Yorkshire abbey, a cataloguer opens the last locked bay and finds one man’s journals from 1538 to last week, and what finishing the list will cost him.
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The House That Remembers
When restorer Iris Calloway buys crumbling Blackmoor House, she discovers it comes with a resident: Edmund Blackmoor, the ghost who built it in 1874 and has spent forty years watching it decay. As she restores the house room by room, guided by his century-old knowledge, she finds herself falling for a man on the wrong side of mortality.
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The Governess of Thornfield Hall
When Clara Ashton accepts a governess position at Thornfield Hall, she expects a difficult child and a gloomy house. She finds a brilliant girl, a locked west wing, and a master whose weariness hides a man desperate to be seen. The house has secrets. So does he. And Clara has never met a question she was willing to leave unasked.
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