Harper Vale has saved the world, gotten the guy, and inherited the keys to an ancient magickal library. She figured the hard part was over. She figured wrong.
Three weeks into running the Athenaeum as its new Keeper, Harper is in over her head. The wards won't behave, the paperwork is written in languages that predate paper, and the ancient library she's bonded to has started to dim—its lights going out candle by candle, night by night, for reasons no one can explain. Worse, she's the only one who can feel it dying.
Luckily, she isn't doing it alone. There's Dolly, the goblin housekeeper who solves most crises with a sandwich and a firm opinion. Dax, her raccoon familiar, who's stopped making trouble and started keeping a worried, watchful vigil at her side. Corvus, her aunt's four-hundred-year-old crow, who supervises Harper's every move with the warmth of a tax inspector. And Rhett, her loyal Guardian, who would face down anything in the world for her—if only the thing coming for them could be fought head-on.
Because this enemy doesn't announce himself with an army. He arrives courteous, and patient, and certain that what he's come to do is a kindness—and he knows things about Harper's mother that no one alive should know. To stop him, Harper will have to open a book the library hid for twenty-eight years, written in her mother's own hand, and finish something Lillian Ashwood began long before Harper was born.
With her found family beside her and a power she's only beginning to understand, Harper must master her magick, trust the bond she isn't sure she's earned, and learn the hardest lesson the Ashwood line has to teach: the magick was never the loud part. She is.
Some doors, once opened, don't close. Some libraries, once chosen, don't let go.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Three weeks into running the Athenaeum as its new Keeper, Harper is in over her head. The wards won't behave, the paperwork is written in languages that predate paper, and the ancient library she's bonded to has started to dim—its lights going out candle by candle, night by night, for reasons no one can explain. Worse, she's the only one who can feel it dying.
Luckily, she isn't doing it alone. There's Dolly, the goblin housekeeper who solves most crises with a sandwich and a firm opinion. Dax, her raccoon familiar, who's stopped making trouble and started keeping a worried, watchful vigil at her side. Corvus, her aunt's four-hundred-year-old crow, who supervises Harper's every move with the warmth of a tax inspector. And Rhett, her loyal Guardian, who would face down anything in the world for her—if only the thing coming for them could be fought head-on.
Because this enemy doesn't announce himself with an army. He arrives courteous, and patient, and certain that what he's come to do is a kindness—and he knows things about Harper's mother that no one alive should know. To stop him, Harper will have to open a book the library hid for twenty-eight years, written in her mother's own hand, and finish something Lillian Ashwood began long before Harper was born.
With her found family beside her and a power she's only beginning to understand, Harper must master her magick, trust the bond she isn't sure she's earned, and learn the hardest lesson the Ashwood line has to teach: the magick was never the loud part. She is.
Some doors, once opened, don't close. Some libraries, once chosen, don't let go.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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