The Treasure He Keeps

After Sarah Lyte's attempt to get a Ph.D. implodes, she drifts through her small college town, too ashamed to go back home. Out of money and options, she takes a job in the town's isolated private library, Carregaur. Her housemate, vivacious beauty guru Karina Teague, wishes she wouldn't. Karina grew up in the shadow of Carregaur, where the head librarian, Henry Wait, prowls the lonely grounds and mutters to himself.

Karina has a point. Sarah is pretty sure Mr. Wait lives in his library, somewhere in the dark and misty corridors that run underneath it. Still, she can't help noticing that Mr. Wait is impossibly, inhumanly gorgeous. And his assistant, kind and cheerful Ellis Stormont, assures her that Mr. Wait always means well.

When sinister events start happening at the library, Sarah realizes Mr. Wait has secrets not just about who -- and what -- he is, but about the danger that he is in. That Sarah is in, too, now that she works for him.

But she's also beginning to see glimpses of the clever, witty, thoughtful man underneath the scowl. The mysterious Mr. Wait may be impossible to resist - but falling for him will turn her into a target of enemies with unimaginable power.

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NOTE: This story doesn't have a set update schedule. :( I'm using it as a bribe to get myself to work on something else that I need to finish :o