The Book of Speculation

✍ Scribed by Erika Swyler

• Book ID: 100584729
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 470 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 146685779X

✦ Synopsis

"Dear Mr. Watson, _I came across this book at auction as part of a larger lot I purchased on speculation. 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...."
_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. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls.
On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who lived and worked in a traveling circus more than two hundred years ago. The paper crackles with age as Simon turns the yellowed pages filled with notes, sketches, and...