Elara Vesper is a librarian with a gift she keeps locked away-the ability to read the emotional history of any object she touches. In the quiet sanctuary of the Sea Haven Library, she's built a careful life, using her psychometry only to help patrons find what they've lost, while keeping the world's pain at a distance.
But when ex-detective Caleb Cross walks into her library with a missing woman's silver hair clip, Elara's walls shatter. Touching it, she doesn't just see the past-she feels the victim's terror, hears a collector's smooth, chilling voice, and realizes the woman isn't dead... she's being kept.
Preserved.
As they unravel a string of disappearances-beautiful, artistic women turned into frozen "art" in a private gallery-Elara is pulled deeper into a nightmare she can't unfeel. The collector, Julian Archer, doesn't just want to own beauty; he wants to make it eternal. And when his gaze turns to Elara, he sees the perfect final piece for his collection: a woman who can feel everything, trapped forever.
Now, to save the lost, Elara must embrace the gift that terrifies her most. With Caleb-a man running from his own failures-beside her, she must enter the mind of a monster, touch the objects that hold unspeakable trauma, and risk becoming part of the collection herself.
The Librarian of Lost Things is a darkly romantic, gripping supernatural thriller for readers of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Silent Patient. It's a story about the courage to feel deeply in a world that wants you numb, and the redemptive power of love when two broken people find each other in the dark.
