The Bell & Book: 1

Where the dead come to read.Lenora Bell has spent eleven years trying to forget her mysterious great-aunt.Then, three days after the funeral, a letter arrives.Inside is an inheritance she never expected: an old bookshop in the remote village of Bellwick, along with three unsettling instructions: Keep the shop open.Do not sell it.And never close the doors after midnight.Lenora arrives expecting dusty shelves and a forgotten family business.Instead, she finds a cup of freshly made tea in an apparently abandoned shop, a mysterious undertaker named Rowan Blackwood, and a book that seems to know things no book should know.Then, at midnight, someone knocks from inside the shop.The visitor is Professor Elias Wren.He has been dead for twenty-three years.And he believes he was murdered.As Lenora begins investigating Wren's death, she discovers that the Bell & Book is far more than an old bookstore. For generations, her family has guarded a mysterious boundary between the living and the dead-and someone is determined to break it.But the deeper Lenora digs, the more disturbing the secrets become.Her mother's ghost returns with a warning.Her great-aunt left behind a hidden book.A missing page may hold the truth about a decades-old murder.And somewhere beneath Bellwick, something is waiting for the Bell family to return.Now Lenora must uncover what happened twenty-three years ago before another death is written into the Bell & Book.Because in Bellwick, the dead have memories.The books remember them.And some secrets refuse to stay buried.THE BELL & BOOK is Book One of The Bell & Book Mysteries, an atmospheric paranormal mystery series featuring ghosts, secret histories, a mysterious bookshop, family secrets, and a decades-old murder that refuses to remain forgotten