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WHAT THE DESK REMEMBERS A Crabapple Antiques Mysteries bonus story Jennie Wren Foster

Kettlebrook, Vermont — October 1966

I have been an archivist for thirty-one years, and the first thing they teach you, if anyone teaches you at all, which they did not teach me, is that a record is only as safe as the person willing to keep it.

I learned that the hard way, the way I have learned everything. You would think, given the work, that I would have a horror of fire, of flood, of the slow brown rot that...

The Watcher

A Coven General bonus scene — Rourke’s POV

Free newsletter exclusive (~1,550 words). The first night, from the other side of the bond. Jennie Wren Foster.

I had been sent to confirm a rumor, and I did not expect the rumor to be tired.

That was the first thing I noticed about her, before the silver, before the rest of it: the woman in the pink scrubs was running on nothing. I have watched a great many humans over a great many years, and you learn to read the body the way you read...

THE LAST LIBRARY OF THE GODS

Bonus Scene — The Cataloguing of Small Things

A deleted scene from the new life, for readers of the Celestial Fold. Valeriana’s point of view.

There is a particular cruelty to mornings, and no one warned me about it in three hundred years of never having one.

For three centuries I woke the way an empire wakes, all at once and already at war, the day’s threats arranged in my mind before my eyes had opened. I did not lie in beds. I rose from them. There is a difference,...

THE FIRST MORNING A bonus scene from The Broken Script of the Stars Kindred’s point of view

This scene takes place the morning after the library came home. If you have not finished the book, know that it will spoil the ending.

I had forgotten what my own weight felt like.

That was the first thing the sun taught me, and it taught me at the treeline, because I could not yet bear the open courtyard. A thousand years is a long time to be a note in a chord instead of a body in a place, and when Soren...

A Quiet Sale

A free bonus scene from The Auction House Affair (Crabapple Antiques Mysteries, Book Three) · Jennie Wren Foster

Kettlebrook, the week after Christmas. For everyone who wanted to know whether the register and the desk ever learned to share a counter.

The week between Christmas and the new year is the only week of the year Crabapple Antiques makes no sense as a business, which is exactly why I keep it open. Nobody buys antiques between the holidays. People return them, or they...

In the shadowed halls of the Hollow Court, where books bite the unwary and rooms rearrange themselves according to political necessity, the Archivist has built a careful life among secrets that aren't hers to keep. But when a mysterious message appears in silver ink that moves across ancient pages, her world of dusty tomes and whispered knowledge collides with forces far older and more dangerous than court intrigue.

Summoned by the enigmatic Adjutant—a man whose true name makes oaths nervous—...

She never believed in magic. He's been protecting her magical bloodline for centuries.

Lyra Nightshade has spent twenty-five years believing she's perfectly ordinary—until silver flames erupt from her fingertips and shatter her carefully constructed world. When mysterious dragon shifter Kieran Shadowmere appears at her door, claiming to be her sworn protector, Lyra discovers she's the last of a powerful magical bloodline that dangerous enemies will kill to possess.

Kieran has waited three...