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Katherine Howe, writer of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Guide of Deliverance Dane, results by having an enchanting historic story occur Boston in 1915, in which a young lady stands on the edge of the new millennium, split between reduction and love, pushed to find solutions within the depths of the crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her sister and mother about the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet frustration with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued sibling within an elegant town home in Boston’s Back Bay. Caught in a global over which she's no control, Sibyl flees for comfort to the shop of the stand-switching medium.But when her brother is abruptly started out-of Harvard under mysterious conditions and falls under the sway of the peculiar young lady, Sibyl turns for help therapy teacher Benton Derby, regardless of the silent concerns of the shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to resolve a traumatic secret, their long-simmering interest flames alive, and they recognize that there might be something much more enchanting between them than the usual medium’s scrying glass.From the opium dens of Boston’s Chinatown for the luxurious salons of high-society, in the back alleys of northeastern Shanghai towards the decks of the Titanic, The Home of Velvet and Glass weaves together meticulous period detail, intoxicating love, and your final shocking twist that will leave viewers breathless.