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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Clara Vale has spent fourteen years building a life that depends on no one. Her secondhand bookshop, Chapter & Verse, is a place of comforting order-every volume catalogued, every debt recorded, every door locked at closing.
Then twelve weatherproof crates arrive from the estate of R. M. Calloway, an archivist Clara once turned away.
Inside is an extraordinary collection and a battered copy of Rebecca containing a handwritten message meant for her. As Clara uncovers numbered clues, concealed pages and evidence hidden within the bindings, she realizes that Calloway entrusted her with far more than a library. He left behind a record of stolen histories, institutional silence and a truth powerful people worked for decades to suppress.
With bookbinder Julian beside her-but keeping secrets of his own-Clara must decide whether preserving the past also means exposing it.
Revealing the archive may cost Clara her shop, her independence and the carefully ordered life she created. Burying it would make her part of the silence.
Chapter & Verse is an atmospheric literary mystery about memory, complicity and the courage required to open the first page.
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