{"product_id":"sum-of-broken-rooms-paperback","title":"Sum of Broken rooms - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. M. Cannon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, 1554. Some doors lock from the outside. Others lock from within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the scandal. Before Bedlam's gates swallowed men whole. Before names like Stanley became a sentence-there was a quieter kind of unraveling, one that happened in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a city that rewards performance and punishes difference, \u003cstrong\u003eAstrolabe\u003c\/strong\u003e moves through London with a mind tuned to patterns others never notice-tones, timings, contradictions, the invisible rules people insist are \"obvious.\" What the world calls odd, Astrolabe has learned to call survival. Precision is safer than guesswork. Silence is safer than honesty. Observation is safer than trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a seemingly small disturbance exposes a larger threat-whispers of power, a household secret, a wrong that won't stay buried-Astrolabe is drawn into a web of suspicion that reaches beyond one broken room and into the machinery of Tudor London itself. The closer Astrolabe comes to the truth, the more the city closes ranks. And the more dangerous it becomes to be the one person who can't stop noticing what doesn't fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sum of Broken Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a dark, atmospheric prequel to \u003cstrong\u003eThe Bedlam Series\u003c\/strong\u003e-a short historical tale of perception, isolation, and the cost of seeing too clearly in a world determined not to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 54\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57219651207473,"sku":"9798993709819","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/moXicKksjY9798993709819.webp?v=1793375470","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/sum-of-broken-rooms-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}