The Apprentice of St. Albyn

The First Novel of the Crown Archives Presents,

The Apprentice of St. Albyn.

Miss Clara Pembroke has spent the past few months within the walls of St. Albyn Palace, surrounded by forgotten letters, ancient records, and the carefully preserved histories of others.

As an apprentice to the Royal Archives, Clara expects her future to remain comfortably among dusty shelves and sealed correspondence. But when her mentor announces the next stage of her training, the quiet life she knows is suddenly turned upside down.

Clara is to leave St. Albyn.

Her new assignment will take her beyond the palace gates and into the great noble houses of the realm, where generations of private letters, journals, heirlooms, and family records have remained untouched by the Royal Archives.

Her first destination is House Eryngton.

What begins as an extraordinary opportunity soon leaves Clara questioning the histories she has always trusted. Dates do not align. Documents are missing. Familiar names appear where they should not.

And the deeper Clara looks into the past, the clearer one thing becomes:

Some histories were not forgotten. They were hidden.