A follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann's continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.

When she is out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her perfect sister where she takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help-and helps her in return.

After escaping his grief by working in dangerous, war-torn places across the world, Ben McDaniel returns to his hometown where he faces an even greater danger - Aubrey Wellington, a gorgeous woman whom his family and friends warn him against getting involved with.

Returning to her childhood home after nearly two decades and reeling from upheavals in her world, Noel Post inherits her father's bookstore and begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future, and as she begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, Noel starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family.

The cat which Mr. Brown gets to catch the mice in his bookstore comes up with a very unusual way to attract customers.

Struggling to hold onto her family's bookshop in the wake of her beloved father's death and circling property developers, Emilia finds support from family-like customers who navigate their own difficulties with secrets, loss and unrequited romance.

Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up-and put up with-her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100. But the day she's kicked out, Pammy's found dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions unanswered.

Deciding to spend Christmas in Coventry, Texas, Keelie Cannon, dealing with a fractured ankle, a lewd grandmother, and a sick hamster, finds herself distracted from her holiday woes by a handsome veterinarian who makes house calls.

A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.

Evie's book club friends are the people in the world she relies on most. But when one of the newer members finds herself confronted with her past, the rest of the club will do what they can to help, endangering the existence of the bookshop without realizing it.