Takeover

Friday, December 5, 2028, opens in the dim light of Lola's kitchen, where her grandmother stares at the unopened envelope from 1894. At seven forty p.m., the Ivybridge auditorium fills with three hundred elegant guests, including three generations of the Reading Circle and an empty central chair symbolizing the founders. Headmistress Halloway takes the lectern, officially announcing that the secre...