The Hidden Prayer Book

A prayer book survived the destruction of Antwerp. The truth hidden inside it was never meant to.

For more than four centuries, Stonebridge House has told the same story about its most treasured book.

Susan Stewart is about to prove that story false.

Hired to appraise a collection discovered behind a sealed wall, Susan quickly realizes that one sixteenth-century devotional book is unlike anything else in the room. Its binding has been altered. A page has been deliberately removed. Its brass clasp carries evidence of an earlier life.

And something has been hidden inside it.

Before Susan can determine what, Stonebridge's archivist is dead.

Now a routine appraisal has become a murder investigation, and every discovery raises a more dangerous question. Who changed the book's history? What were they trying to erase? And why does the truth still matter enough to kill for?

Susan possesses a gift she trusts even less than the people around her know: certain objects can surrender fragments of the lives they once touched.

But the dead do not testify.

Evidence does.

So Susan follows what can be proved through damaged bindings, vanished records, forgotten accession numbers, and a trail stretching back to Antwerp in 1566, where one woman risked everything to preserve something powerful people wanted forgotten.

Eleven names. A missing page. Four centuries of lies.

And someone has already killed to make sure the truth stays buried.

Perfect for readers who love cozy atmospheric historical mysteries, dual timelines, intelligent female sleuths, old books, hidden histories, and a touch of the unexplained, The Hidden Prayer Book is Book Two of the Objects Remember Mysteries.