The Dead Letter Delivery by C.J. Archer

The Dead Letter Delivery (The Glass Library #4) by C.J. Archer, 279 p. 

“The discovery of long-lost mail delivers a marriage proposal, a missing person, and a magical mystery.

A road trip with Gabe and her friends leads Sylvia to discover more about her mother’s veiled past yet throws up several questions, too. The stack of unopened letters addressed to her family will hopefully provide answers. As she delves into the contents, a startling revelation the letters allude to a clandestine union between two magician families, hinting at the elusive identity of Sylvia’s father.

Full of hope, she embarks on a quest to find the author of the letters, only to discover an artless youth who vanished decades ago, a dead man with the wrong name, and a hospital for former soldiers that connects them. The further Sylvia and Gabe delve into these mysteries, the more lies they expose, including long-buried secrets that certain individuals will stop at nothing to protect. When danger strikes, Sylvia wonders if finding answers is worth the risk.” —Goodreads blurb

This series of books have been such a good find for me this year from an author I hadn’t read before. Longer than a short story, but much shorter than what I usually read, these books are a great palette cleanser after a deep dive into a series or a genre streak. Sylvia and Gabe are great characters, not to mention the others in their motley crew. I was so glad to hear that there is another series set with this same magic system that I will be reading too.