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The House Of Velvet And Glass
Katherine Howe
Voice/Hyperion
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
ISBN: 1401340911
EAN: 9781401340919
Kindle: B007FHM30Q
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times
bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns
with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915,
where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century,
torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the
depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on
the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet
desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued
brother in an elegant town house in Boston’s Back Bay.
Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sibyl
flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under
mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a
strange young woman, Sibyl turns for help to psychology
professor Benton Derby, despite the unspoken tensions of
their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to
solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering spark flares
to life, and they realize that there may be something even
more magical between them than a medium’s scrying glass. From the opium dens of Boston’s Chinatown to the opulent
salons of high society, from the back alleys of colonial
Shanghai to the decks of the Titanic, The House of Velvet
and Glass weaves together meticulous period detail,
intoxicating romance, and a final shocking twist that will
leave readers breathless.
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