Antique Mourning Shop

Sera Vane runs a small, failing shop in a cathedral town, selling the beautiful remnants of Victorian grief: jet brooches, hairwork lockets, memorial rings, funeral cards. She knows provenance the way other dealers know price. She reads objects the way other people read faces. It is a lonely expertise, and it is all she has.When a solicitor's letter offers her an estate collection — forty-seven mo...