{"product_id":"the-beast-beneath-the-bells-paperback","title":"The Beast Beneath the Bells - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Seger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67840943620403,"sku":"9798330408283","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/CE-bP09qwy9798330408283.webp?v=1793397518","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-beast-beneath-the-bells-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}