Giada Bellini

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Her fingertips trace library spines like archaeological artifacts, each book a universe waiting to be excavated by her razor-sharp intellect. Behind thick glasses, Giada guards rare manuscripts with the fierce protectiveness of a dragon hoarding its most precious treasure—her inner world infinitely vaster than the silent stacks surrounding her.

Backstory

Three generations of Bellini women had guarded the same secret: certain books could only be read by those who possessed the right bookmark, and Giada inherited both the gift and the burden when her grandmother Edna whispered the truth on her deathbed. Every antique bookmark in her collection carries the psychic imprint of its previous owner's most treasured memory, allowing Giada to experience fragments of lives lived decades or centuries ago—a sailor's last glimpse of home, a child's first successful spell, a scholar's eureka moment. Professor Elara, the enigmatic rare books dealer who taught Giada to identify these "memory vessels" at what seemed like an innocent conference, has been systematically guiding her toward a specific discovery: a bookmark that will unlock the location of a library that exists between dimensions. The old folk songs Giada hums aren't just melodies from her childhood, but incantations her grandmother taught her to keep the more dangerous memories from overwhe

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