The Stolen Letter

Delaney Nichols is confident shes doing what she loves - case in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, shes eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying to the ground. Delaneys hapless victims name is Mary, and the two women cant help but notice that they bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. According to Mary, they both also look like the long-beheaded Mary Queen of Scots. Even stranger, Mary believes she is the reincarnation of the Scottish queen. But peculiar as Delaneys doppelganger is, she doesnt have time to dwell on it: on her arrival to the bookshop, she learns the Edinburgh city council wants to close the Cracked Spine, citing code violations, and shes determined to stop them. But when Marys husband dies in a car explosion - and Delaney learns he was the very member of city council who proposed that the city take a closer look at the bookshops construction - she starts to wonder if her meeting with Mary wasnt an accident. Edinburgh has become as filled with intrigue and deception as any European court, and Delaney is determined to get to the bottom of this royal mystery.