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Loveday Cardew prefers the company of books to that of people, and her small bookshop is a refuge from a painful past she has carefully concealed. Her life is quietly stable until a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries bring her hidden history to the foreground. As her secrets emerge, Loveday must decide whether to embrace the love and questions that threaten to collapse the sanctuary she has built. A contemporary romance that explores the healing power of literature and the courage required to confront one’s own story.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Stephanie Butland
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