{"product_id":"the-beast-beneath-the-bells-9798330408283","title":"The Beast Beneath the Bells","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Darkling Collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798330408283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Kate Seger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514316742837,"sku":"9798330408283","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798330408283.jpg?v=1791903569","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-beast-beneath-the-bells-9798330408283","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}