Spanning Gilded Age New York society to the Nineteen Thirties Scottish Highlands, this gothic novel is a thriller inside a thriller, that includes a compelling heroine, an engrossing puzzle with fiendish clues, and never one however three large twists.
It’s 1932: Scottish adventuress and plant-hunter (and surviving twin) Emily Blackwood, now residing in Australia, accepts a fee from Heinrich Vogel, a former seller of unique animals in Manhattan. Vogel now lives along with his macabre assortment of taxidermy in a distant Scottish fort. Emily is tasked with discovering a long-lost treasure that Heinrich believes has been hidden inside the fort partitions. However as an alternative, she discovers the pages of a diary written by Hester Vogel, who died after falling from the Brooklyn Bridge on the eve of its opening in 1883. Hester’s diary leads Emily to an outdated e book, The Birdcage Library, and right into a treasure hunt of one other form—one that may take her down a harmful path for clues, and pressure her to confront her personal darkest secret . . .
Cowl design by Jared Oriel. Cowl artwork: Arcangel: Peter Chadwick (birdcage, shadow)
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