The Name in the Binding

At Bellwether House, old books do not stay quiet when the record is wrong.

When Clara Vale receives a damaged antique volume with no trustworthy return address, the mystery begins inside the binding itself. A repaired spine, a lifted pastedown, and a hidden paper fragment point to a name that should not exist in the Ashcombe family record. What begins as a careful conservation question soon becomes a murder investigation tangled in inheritance, erased identity, old village secrets, and a hou...