{"product_id":"the-beast-beneath-the-bells-kate-seger-9798330408283","title":"The Beast Beneath the Bells","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a city drowning in fog, even a monster can be a sanctuary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the climate-controlled silence of the British Library, manuscript conservator Cordelia Elliston lives a life of careful repairs and quiet order. But the charred diary she finds in a private estate clearance refuses to be fixed. The leather is fever-hot. The ink moves like living shadow. And when the page pulses beneath her fingers, Cordelia is pulled through a crack in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wakes in the sulfurous, batswing-lit London of 1888. It is a city paralyzed by murder, but the killings are merely a symptom. The \"Troth\"-the ancient boundary that keeps the dark at bay-is failing, and the city's sanity is leaking through the cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelow the rotting timbers of Blackfriars Bridge, Cordelia finds the source of the rot. Sunder. A guardian of the Troth, a being of elemental iron and ancient bone, chained for forty years by a man who would break the world to reclaim his own heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save the city, Cordelia must do the one thing her trade forbids: she must destroy an ancient thing to find the truth inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as the lines between the present and the past begin to blur, she realizes that the life she left behind is a lie, and the only truth left is the monster who knows the shape of her soul better than he knows his own chains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Seger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798330408283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Darkling Collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Kate Seger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665722315007,"sku":"9798330408283","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_504d958e-f2a5-4f3e-9ef2-97eea790b639.jpg?v=1792013527","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beast-beneath-the-bells-kate-seger-9798330408283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}