A ghost in a library. A sto­ry wait­ing to be told. The Miss­ing Pages is a rich, lyri­cal nov­el that reminds us that books are as eter­nal as the soul.

1912: Har­ry Widen­er, a promis­ing and pas­sion­ate book col­lec­tor, boards the Titan­ic hold­ing tight to a price­less vol­ume he’s just pur­chased in Lon­don. After cat­a­stro­phe strikes the ship, Harry’s last known words are that he must return to his cab­in to retrieve his lat­est trea­sure. Nei­ther the young man nor the book are ever seen again. Hon­or­ing her son’s mem­o­ry, Harry’s moth­er builds the Har­ry Widen­er Memo­r­i­al Library at Har­vard to house his exten­sive book col­lec­tion and ensure his lega­cy.

Decades lat­er, Vio­let Hutchins, a Har­vard sopho­more recov­er­ing from her own great loss, is work­ing as a page at the Widen­er Library. When mys­te­ri­ous things begin hap­pen­ing at the library, Vio­let won­ders if Har­ry Widener’s ghost is try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate with her, seek­ing Vio­let to uncov­er a long-buried secret that the ardent young Har­ry took with him to the grave.

For fans of The Mid­night Library and The Book Thief, best­selling author, Alyson Rich­man has writ­ten a love sto­ry, a ghost sto­ry, and an ele­gy to the heal­ing pow­er of books.