The boy beyond the Mirror
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Elora never believed in ghosts.
But when her job as a bank auctioneer sends her to the mist-veiled halls of Windsor Castle - abandoned for three decades and rumored to be cursed - she doesn't expect to find a mirror that reflects the impossible.
In its glass stares a boy who isn't from her time.
His name is St. George's Chapel III.
He is charming, forgotten by history, and trapped behind the silence of centuries.
She came to appraise the ruins of a life once royal.
Instead, she begins to unravel a love story that never had an ending.
But the deeper she walks into the past, the more the castle stirs.
And some ghosts don't want to be forgotten.
A romantic, magical mystery of time-crossed souls, haunted memories, and a girl who dared to see the light in someone long gone.
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