Withdrawn

Seven minutes before opening, book scout Francis Webb brings Nora Calloway a 1943 children's novel by nearly forgotten author Marion Voss. Inside is a Harrowgate Grammar School Library stamp and one unsettling word: WITHDRAWN. Before Nora can trace the book, Francis dies, and a buyer appears asking for the exact copy with details no one made public. Nora follows missing catalogue records, scattered Voss books, and suspicious acquisitions across New England. Then the margins begin changing beneath her hands. Someone tried to erase Marion Voss. The books have not agreed to disappear.