The Archivist's Bargain

By Abir M

Bellweather House does not merely keep records. It keeps people.

Rosalind Carew is meant to make an inventory: silver, furniture, books. Instead she discovers an office no one admits exists, drawers waiting for names that were never meant to be written, and records capable of turning human lives into assets to be transferred, deferred and owned.

Beside her is Silas Ashcombe, a man who already knows what a bargain can cost. Against them stands an Association that has spent more than a century perfecting an inheritance system designed to survive every refusal.

And Bellweather has begun recording Roz.

To save the people already marked by the house, she must discover whether an archive can be broken without completing the claim it was built to preserve.

Some estates preserve property. Bellweather preserves possession.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG41PT56
• ISBN13: 9798193995685
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"