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Archivist's Dare
Paperback
Publisher: Laura Carpenter
Published: Jan 12 2026
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Siofra Lane can tell when a room is lying. One wrong humidity reading can curl a century of paper into ruin-and when she's hired to stabilise a neglected west-wing archive in a small Irish town, the air is wrong in a way that spells trouble.
Theo Blake is the renovation lead assigned to the same building: calm, capable, and the kind of man who treats old places like they have bones. Siofra doesn't need help. She needs answers. Because ledgers don't misfile themselves, and missing records don't vanish by accident.
Together, they uncover a quiet theft buried under clerical errors and polite silence-an artefact that should never have left the community. The paper trail leads from locked rooms and town politics to a London auction house where history is sold to the highest bidder.
To get it back, they'll need proof, nerve, and the kind of stubborn decency that keeps showing up when it would be easier to walk away. As the truth tightens around them, so does something else: a slow-burn connection built on competence, trust, and the gentle shock of being seen.
ARCHIVISTS DARE is a contemporary Irish romance with small-town warmth, found-family comfort, low-angst yearning, and a smart, cosy mystery thread-perfect for readers who love heartfelt love stories with real stakes and satisfying resolution.
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