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The Lark & Quill Mysteries · Book 06

Winter Binding

A Lark & Quill Mystery · Mira Ellsworth

Eleanor’s papers surface. The ice was a story. Selectman Walter Baines is fifty-eight and he has run out of weather.

Helen is thirty-five. Hugh is thirty-nine. He does the warrant. After, she says come in. They go upstairs. She does not sleep. Morning is tea and a shirt on a chair. That is the ceiling.

The collector is still in Burlington. The town official is not.

The Lark & Quill Mysteries

Book 06 of 6

Heat
 1–2 of 5 — what this means
Length
52,023 words · 12 chapters · 198 printed pages
Content
Murder (proved). Closed door only. Adults 35 and 39.
Point of view
Single, Helen
ISBN
Paperback: ISBN not yet issued · Hardcover: ISBN not yet issued

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Questions about Winter Binding

How long is Winter Binding?

52,023 words across 12 chapters. In the paperback that is 198 pages at 5.5 × 8.5 in, or about 3 hours of reading.

How explicit is Winter Binding?

Heat 1–2 of 5. Kisses, longing, fade to black. Closed door, one implied night. The couple is the A-plot at every level, and every romantic or sexual character in this catalogue is 25 or older.

Do I have to read The Lark & Quill Mysteries in order?

No. Winter Binding is book 6 of 6 and resolves its own couple, so it works on its own. The series plot runs underneath and is better in order.

Can I read part of Winter Binding first?

Yes — the whole of chapter one, 4,950 words, free on this site. No email address and no account, and it does not stop mid-scene.

Are there content warnings for Winter Binding?

Murder (proved). Closed door only. Adults 35 and 39. They are printed on the copyright page of the book too.

What do I get when I buy Winter Binding?

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An illustrated Vermont bookshop in winter, crowded shelves and snow falling on a lamplit town green through the bay window More from this series The Lark & Quill Mysteries 6 books · Heddleford, VT

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01The book Perfect-bound paperback, matte laminate, or a case-laminate hardcover at 6 × 9 in. Yours to keep, lend and re-read.
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