The Librarian of Crooked Lane

<p><strong>A librarian with a mysterious past a war hero with a secret and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians she's skeptical. After all magicians are special and she's just an ordinary woman who loves books. She seeks answers from</span> a member of<span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)> the most prominent family of magicians but she quickly learns that </span>finding the truth won't be easy especially when he turns out to be as artless as her and more compelling and dangerous than books.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>War hero Gabe is gifted </span>with wealth a loving family and an incredible amount of luck that saw him survive four harrowing years of a brutal war without injury. But not all injuries are visible. Burying himself in his work as a consultant for Scotland Yard Gabe is going through the motions as he investigates the theft of a magician-made painting. But his life changes when he unwittingly gets Sylvia dismissed from her job and places her in danger.</p><p><br></p><p>After securing her new employment in a library housing the world's greatest collection of books about magic Gabe and Sylvia's lives become intwined as they <span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>work together to find both the painting and the truth about Sylvia's past</span> before powerful people can stop them. </p><p><br></p><p>But sometimes the past is better left buried...</p>