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The Mourning Locket

By Melinda Clark

The Mourning Locket

By Melinda Clark

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Book I of The Inheritance BureauWhen a Civil War-era mourning locket resurfaces from the archives, it's logged as a historical artifact.It should have stayed that way.Dr. Cassian Vale and his team at the U.S. Archives' Inheritance Bureau specialize in analyzing objects with unusual data signatures-frequencies that seem to record strong emotional events. They call it emotional acoustics, a fringe theory bridging psychology, forensics, and physics. But when the locket's readings begin to align with active case files, the Bureau's investigation turns from archival to criminal.Each test reveals fragments of a life that shouldn't be traceable-a woman's grief, a soldier's final heartbeat, an echo of something that refuses to fade. As Cassian and his colleagues-genealogist Arden Locke, empath Rowan Vale, analyst Ezra Monroe, and technician Piper Wren-follow the locket's provenance, the data points begin forming a pattern that crosses generations.What starts as a recovery mission becomes a race to identify how human emotion can be measured, contained, and ultimately weaponized. The Bureau's files were meant to protect the public from history. But some histories protect themselves.The Mourning Locket is the first installment in The Inheritance Bureau, a genre-bending thriller that fuses investigation with inheritance, science with memory, and grief with the systems that study it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
130
Release Date:
2025-10-14
Publication Date:
2025-10-14
Publisher:
Clark House Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798218841072
Weight:
201 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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