Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend's eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies she leaves the shop to Posy. As Posy and her friends fight to save their beloved but ailing bookshop, Posy's drawn into a battle of wills with Sebastian, Lavinia's stubborn grandson, about whom she's started to have some rather feverish fantasies... Like her favourite romantic heroines, will she get her happy ever after too?