Description
Author(s): David East
Publisher: UK Publishing House Ltd.
Publisher Imprint: UK Publishing House Ltd.
BISAC: Thrillers – Suspense
A secret buried in blood. A journey across empires. A truth powerful enough to kill for.
Edric Mayberry expected his first professional appointment to be quiet, respectable and full of old documents. Instead, he is summoned to assist Lady Cordelia Blackwood on a genealogical expedition across the Continent, only to learn that the Guild of Genealogists has been slaughtered and its records destroyed. Someone is determined to keep the past hidden.
Disguised as Lady Cordelia’s page, Edric follows a trail of family trees, missing records and dangerous names from London to Calais, Carthage, the Sahara, Petra, Venice, Vienna and beyond. What begins as an aristocratic search for ancestry soon becomes a far more dangerous investigation into Prussian ambition, secret agents, altered archives and the ancient trade in Baltic amber.
In a world shaped by the long shadow of Rome, steam-powered travel, imperial politics and old rivalries, Edric must use the one skill he truly trusts: his eye for detail. But every discovery draws him and Cordelia closer to a conspiracy that has survived for generations, protected by murder, deception and silence.
Rich in historical atmosphere, dry wit, travel adventure and slow-burning mystery, Captured in Amber is an alternate-history adventure about identity, loyalty, courage and the dangerous power of uncovering the truth.
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