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The Afterthought Bookshop Book 1
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The Marginalia

Two women. Sixty-three years apart. The same secret.

Released September 22, 2026

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Former provenance researcher Nora Calloway comes to Harrowgate, Maine, to settle her great-aunt's estate and sell The Afterthought Bookshop. Then a box of discarded library books appears, filled with notes from Ruth Patton, a librarian who died after hiding something she was never meant to see. Days before Nora arrives, another woman uncovers the same secret and leaves a frantic voicemail for the unopened shop. By morning, she is dead. Now someone is searching Nora's bookshop for the evidence. With an ex-detective archivist, an orange cat, and a bell that rings when no one is there, Nora follows the margins before Harrowgate buries the truth for good.
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