Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. 

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  The Portrait of a Lady

  • Henry JAMES

  • 1881
  • American
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  The Secret History

  • Donna TARTT

  • 1992
  • American
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  Dracula

  • Bram STOKER

  • 1897
  • English
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  Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks

  • Doukas

  • English
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  Byzantium

  The Early Centuries

  • John Julius NORWICH

  • 1989
  • English
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  History of Mehmed the Conqueror

  • Michael CRITOBULUS
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  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

  • Thomas HARDY

  • 1891
  • English