How will I calm down enough to read another book after this
one? I am half way through and my mind is completely filled with this story. No
room for other thoughts right now.
In this smart and enthralling debut in the spirit of The
Weird Sisters and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, the only remaining
descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt
to find the family's long-rumored secret estate, using clues her eccentric
father left behind.
Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever
she goes. As the last remaining descendant of the Brontë family, she's rumored
to have inherited a vital, mysterious portion of the Brontë's literary estate;
diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts; a hidden fortune that's
never been shown outside of the family.
But Samantha has never seen this rumored estate, and as far
as she knows, it doesn't exist. She has no interest in acknowledging what the
rest of the world has come to find so irresistible; namely, the sudden and
untimely death of her eccentric father, or the cryptic estate he has bequeathed
to her.
But everything changes when Samantha enrolls at Oxford
University and bits and pieces of her past start mysteriously arriving at her
doorstep, beginning with an old novel annotated in her father's handwriting. As
more and more bizarre clues arrive, Samantha soon realizes that her father has
left her an elaborate scavenger hunt using the world's greatest literature.
With the aid of a handsome and elusive Oxford professor, Samantha must plunge
into a vast literary mystery and an untold family legacy, one that can only be
solved by decoding the clues hidden within the Brontë's own writing.
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