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    Of Secrets and Sound
    Of Secrets and Sound
    Of Secrets and Sound
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    Of Secrets and Sound

    By A.E. Moseley

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    The year is 1873 and society has no room for deaf Edward Rollin. He comes from good breeding, and has wealth and charm in spades- but it's not enough to hide his disability and peculiarities. Edward is a man uninterested in courting or participating in societal events with his peers, instead choosing to spend his days researching the string of bizarre deaths that have rattled London.

    Edward is not alone in his hunt for the truth, either. Ambrose Walsh and Abigail Hunt each have vested interests in getting answers as well. Their search is in part to avenge the death of Abigail's father, but also to save society from a fast growing plague.

    As Edward and his friends hit more dead ends in their investigation, he decides to try a new method of searching. This brings him closer to a cure, but far closer to danger.

    Told through both Edward’s letters and third person, Of Secrets and Sound is the long awaited sequel to Of Secrets, Letters, and Lions.

    Praise for Of Secrets, Letters, and Lions:
    “Supremely authentic” -TK Wade (author of The Death of Olympus)
    "I was drawn in by this story's strange mystery from the very first page..." -Stephanie Parent (author of Defy the Stars)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA.E. Moseley
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781370908790
    Of Secrets and Sound
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    A.E. Moseley

    A.E. Moseley is a native of North Carolina, and still resides there. She started off detesting writing, spending her days playing in the woods, swinging or reading. After reading the first Harry Potter book and seeing the movie, she decided to try her hand at writing and fell in love with it. That was quite a few years ago.A morbid soul at her core, darkness has always appealed to A. Not surprisingly her writings fall into the wide genre of dark speculative fiction. She has no problems venturing into the realms of horror and weird fiction, although she has a love for dark historical fiction. Fantasy has always captivated her, so no doubt dark fantasy stories will come to light as well.

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      Of Secrets and Sound - A.E. Moseley

      Of Secrets and Sound

      By A. E. Moseley

      Copyright 2017 A. E. Moseley

      Cover by James at GoOnWrite.com

      March 5th, 1873

      My dear friend,

      Ambrose, I must say that as your best friend one would expect to hear the passing of a family friend directly from you rather than the papers. I am profoundly sorry for your loss. Although I never had the honor of meeting the man myself, I did follow his articles in the paper with a great deal of pleasure. I realize that Doctor Hunt was a dear friend to your father and that you had been working closely with him over the past fortnight or so.

      Death is a startling thing and I hate that it has startled and so deeply hurt you and your loved ones.

      I’m afraid I have little good news to add. My mother called my name four times to get my attention so that she could give me your letter. I dare say that’s two below the record, and I teased her and reminded of such, but never the less she insists that my hearing is worsening. It is such a gradual thing I hardly notice until someone attempts to speak to me from far away. Honestly if everyone would simply be polite and get my attention by tapping on the table I am sitting at or approach me before speaking, life would be a grand deal easier for everyone.

      Alas, people are incredibly stubborn as you and I are testament of.

      I suppose the good news here is that I did indeed receive your letter and I will continue to catalogue the notes I have thus far. I hope to have it completed by the end of June. Granted this is largely dependent upon what you, your father, and Miss Abigail unearth (I do feel odd calling her that though to call her Miss Hunt would confuse her and her sister. I do hope she forgives me for my impertinence).

      If my memory serves me (and I dare say it serves me much better than my hearing), in your last letter you wrote that you and your father are nearing the end of the first set of notes he has collected? And that Miss Abigail and her family are about halfway through their first set?

      Regarding the last papers you sent on her behalf, I seem to be missing a page between 12 and 14. I’m not sure if this is a drawing that the other Miss Hunt is enlarging for us, or if it is truly missing. If it does turn up, do send it to me. I feel that we have been making a grand deal of progress. There is a light at the end of the tunnel indeed!

      I do write that in jest. Though my hands tend to ache for a good bit afterward, I am quite thrilled that you have asked me to be a part of this. Frankly, as your best friend I would have no choice but to be deeply offended if you had not asked.

      Forgive me for having so little news to share. I sincerely wish I could be there to comfort you in person.

      Please send my condolences to the Hunt family, and again, I am deeply sorry for your loss.

      Wishing you the best despite the pain,

      Edward Rollin

      March 14th, 1873

      Dear friend,

      I have the direst predicament, although let me assure you that it has nothing to do with cataloging or death in general. That (the cataloging), is going splendidly, especially now that I have the missing drawing. Once again, I am in awe of Miss Hanna’s skills. Things are coming together quite nicely. I won’t be sending anything back in this letter, for as I’ve said, I have the direst predicament, and I have no one else to turn to.

      I know you remember good Mr. Kingston. We’ve mocked him often enough (although I still say that he deserved it all, and I’m sure you’ll find that we were quite in the right once you read this). Well you know how dreadfully fond of him my dear mother is. Recently, she’s been inviting him over with alarming frequency. I’m not quite sure why, but I am grateful for the assistance he gives Mother. I assume that she wishes for him to act as my father figure, although having to hide everything from him whenever he comes over does not endear him to me.

      He called quite unannounced this time, unusual of him, I usually have a day or two in advanced to hide everything from him. He’s firmly against the majority of activities I partake in, and would be especially against this one, as he would consider it an unholy and morbid fascination.

      Let us be thankful that he is blissfully unaware of what I do in my chambers all day as is my mother.

      But I’m afraid that if you don’t help me I won’t be of assistance to you much longer.

      Mr. Priest came over with the grandest of news. Of course, you know that the past Season was a complete disaster by my mother’s standards. This grand news put her mind quite at ease because Mr. Kingston has found a cure for my inevitable singleness. He has found a…oh how did he word it? Ah, yes, a young lady of quality that has no distaste for those who may not be what society wishes of them.

      From a young age, you and I have both known that I will be happily a bachelor forever, and will play uncle to your beautiful children that you have with an equally beautiful wife. I have never had an interest in the fairer sex or any sex at all for that matter.

      But that does not hold well with my mother, and she insists that as the man of the house, I should settle down with a proper lady. I needn’t remind you how few of those there are. My mother does that constantly. For

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