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Manor of Secrets
Paperback
Publisher Price: $26.00
ISBN13: 9786178253820
Publisher: Ottavio Ferrante
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dr. Alistair Vance has spent his life cataloguing the past, and his evenings hiding from it. So when a cream envelope sealed in burgundy wax arrives by hand -- bearing a crest he cannot place and an invitation he cannot refuse -- his quiet ritual of tea and old books shatters. The manor is remote, the storm relentless, and the host is nowhere to be found. Instead, Alistair finds six strangers gathered as guests, each with a public reputation and a private wound. There is Clara, a journalist who has built her career on other people's secrets. Leo, a soldier haunted by a single shot. Isadora, a curator with a crime she will not name. Silas, a judge carrying the weight of his rulings. And a note that says two of them are still missing. Sealed inside by reinforced walls and watched by invisible eyes, the guests are drawn into a game with rules they cannot read. Confessions are demanded at midnight. Artifacts of guilt appear in locked rooms. Every riddle points toward a hidden chamber where time stands still, and toward a choice each must make between truth and love. The manor knows what they did. Now it wants them to say it out loud-- before dawn, before their fragile solidarity breaks, and before the host reveals the one secret none of them saw coming.
The envelope arrived on a Tuesday afternoon, precisely at three o'clock, just as Dr. Alistair Vance was settling into his favourite armchair with a cup of Earl Grey. It was an odd hour for mail-the post had already been delivered that morning-and the envelope itself was nothing like the usual bills or academic journals. Thick, cream-coloured paper, the kind you'd find in a stationer's shop that still used letterpress. His name and address were inscribed in a flowing, almost archaic hand, with black ink that seemed to soak into the fibres. No stamp, no postmark. Hand delivered, then. The room was a cocoon of quiet, lined with shelves of leather bound volumes that gave off a familiar scent of old paper and dust. A grandfather clock ticked in the corner, its rhythm as steady as a heartbeat. Outside, the sky had turned the colour of slate, and a fine drizzle misted the windowpanes. Alistair had been looking forward to this hour-the tea steaming in its china cup, the book open on his lap-a small ritual that held the chaos of memory at bay.
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