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Marlo and the Weight of Silence
Hardcover
Series: The Lost & Found Bureau Mysteries, Book 2
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Publisher: Scott McPhee
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some things are lost. Some things are hiding. And some things have been forgotten so completely that the forgetting becomes dangerous.
Beneath the town of Bell Buckle, the Spiral Heart beats again and the Pattern-the invisible web of threads connecting people to the objects they love-hums with restored light. But when light returns, shadows learn to follow.
It begins quietly. The Bureau's First Bell, which has rung for every arrival and every emergency for as long as anyone can remember, simply stops making sound. A name thins on the page of the Ledger. A ferret refuses to cross a patch of empty floor. To most people these would be nothing at all. To Marlo Quill, who has always noticed the small things others step over, they are the first signs that something deep below has woken with a terrible new hunger.
An absence is learning to feed. It does not tear at the world the way a storm tears branches from a tree-it listens for the warmest threads, the places where people have left pieces of themselves behind, and quietly takes them. A bell that carried mornings. A rolling pin that remembered a grandmother's hands. The memories a town didn't know it was holding until they were gone.
With Gus and his rattling inventions, sharp-eyed Tessa, Eli Rowan and his silver sight, and a small bristling ferret named Pip, Marlo descends once more into the forgotten chambers beneath Bell Buckle. There she will face the Shadow Collector-a thing that is not quite a villain, only an emptiness that wants to be real in the one wrong way it knows. To stop it, Marlo must understand what it truly means to hold something gently together because somebody, somewhere, decided it mattered.
Marlo and the Weight of Silence is the second book in The Lost & Found Bureau Mysteries, a middle-grade fantasy series for readers who have ever felt a tug from an invisible thread, paused over an ordinary object without knowing why, or sensed that the world is held together by more than anyone can see.
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