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LETS MAKE THIS CLEAR; I DO NOT OWN THIS BOOK
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It's 1663 in the tiny, hardscabble Dutch colony of new Amsterdamn, now presentday Lower Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and inhabitants suspect a killer may be on the loose. Among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are the quickwitted twenty-two-year-old Blandine van Couvering, a rising young trader in the colony who is herself an orphan, and Edward Drummond, a dashing, worldly Englishman with a bent for science and a secret life to conceal. While passing himself off as a grain merchant, Drummond spies on the dutch for the English king.