The first in a delightful new series set in a quaint old bookshop, for fans of Julia Quinn and Jenny Colgan. Where happy ever after is only a page away Once upon a time in a crumbling bookshop, Posy Morland hid in the pages of romantic novels. So when Bookend's eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put down her books and join the real world. Because Posy hasn't just inherited an ailing business, but also the attentions of Lavinia's grandson, Sebastian, AKA The Rudest Man In London™. Posy has six months to transform Bookends into the shop of her dreams but as Posy and her friends fight to save the bookshop, she's drawn into a battle of wills with Sebastian, about whom she's started to have some rather feverish fantasies...