The Bookbinder's Secret - A.D. BellWhat danger could lie within a book? Genre: Historical fiction, mystery, fantasy Pages: 448 Blurb: Lilian Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life, caught between the oppressive walls of her fathers bookshop and the limitations of being a woman in a mans profession. But when a burned book comes into her possession, she finds hidden beneath the binding a fifty year old letter speaking of love,

His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her

modernity and ignorance

Genre: Romantasy

Her saviour and her downfall

But really it’s all a disguise

Her neighbour

Survival means enduring every vicious glare and cursed outbreak

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house

I’m the town loner

How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present

Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life

Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths