The Winter Archive

Celeste Thyme has built her life around preservation. As a paper conservator at the secluded Pembrook Institute, she specializes in rescuing fragile documents from the brink of ruin: letters drowned, burned, or erased by time. Paper is safe. Paper does not betray you. After a devastating professional and personal betrayal in her past, Celeste has learned that solitude is the only reliable way to survive.

Mark Gables is the Institute's Head Archivist, a man who believes in stewardship, order,...