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The Long Keeping: The Amber Stacks Book Two
Paperback
Series: Where the Evening Stays, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 30 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Amber Stacks has a Keeper. She knows which floorboard creaks, which remedies know their visitors before they speak, which evenings the amber light holds differently. She does the work. She stays.
She just hasn't said so yet.
When the Registry arrives with warrants and the last Keeper returns after twenty years to undo the work she left in the walls, Corra realises that belonging to a place and being responsible for it are not the same thing.
Two valid claims on the same space. An outside world pressing at the threshold. And the shop waiting, as it always has - this time, for Corra to speak.
The Long Keeping is a cozy fantasy about found family, a sentient bookshop, and a woman who has spent a year coming home - learning what it means to keep it.
For fans of TJ Klune, Alix E. Harrow, and Travis Baldree.
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