The first clue arrived inside a waterlogged copy of Moby-Dick, its margins scrawled with coordinates and a single word: “Remember.”
Eleanor Shaw had spent her life among the dusty stacks of the Haversham Library, surrounded by the words of long-dead authors. She never expected her encyclopedic knowledge of 19th-century literature to attract thieves—or resurrect the brother she’d believed was gone forever.
When rare manuscripts start vanishing, Eleanor turns to Jasper Cole, a cynical rare-book dealer with a talent for forgery. Together, they decipher a thief’s trail hidden in coded annotations, each classic novel revealing a new secret.
Their search takes them deep into the world of underground auctions, where the final item up for bid isn’t a book—it’s Eleanor herself. As she unravels her own family’s role in a century-old literary hoax, the past becomes dangerously real.
In a final showdown, she faces a shadowy collector in the depths of a labyrinthine archive, where the truth—and a loaded pistol—wait inside a hollowed-out copy of Dracula.