The Distant Whispers

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The ledger in the Duke’s private study weighed exactly four pounds, seven ounces, and twelve grains, a fact Elias Thorne had verified with a brass scale three times in the last hour because the weight of the book had begun to feel like a living thing, a heavy, breathing mass that pressed against the spine of his hand as he counted the remaining hours of the Duke’s life. He was forty-two years...

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