His best friend and fellow librarian, Alice, looks on in increasing alarm. The paper crackles with age as Simon turns the yellowed pages filled with notes, sketches, and whimsical flourishes. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who worked in a traveling circus more than 200 years ago. In late June Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards and seldom calls. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home - a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea.
The damage renders it useless to me, but a name inside it - Verona Bonn - led me to believe it might be of interest to you or your family." Watson, I came across this book at auction as part of a larger lot I purchased on speculation.
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