It’s always a good time to read.
Cezanne Montgomery loves all things Anne Shirley, middle-grade, and picture books. Oh, and she also adores Gene-Stratton Porter, but she'll never admit it if her former friend and arch-business rival, Nadia Carter can possibly hear.
It’s always a good time to read.
Just ask Cezanne (just “Anne” if you please. Anne with an E). After her disastrous business breakup with her best friend, Anne left her beloved Berne’d Books in the dust and moved across the street to the building she’d always wanted for their bookstore. Clock Tower Bound might be small and floundering, but it has great potential.
If Berne, Indiana can support two bookstores that is.
Enter Milton Coleridge and his trusty parrotlet, Atticus. Anne is certain that Milton can ensure the success of a bookstore that emphasizes reader-author connections and keeping the younger generation in good literature.
Milton… isn’t so certain. A town with a population of just over four thousand isn’t exactly a gold mine for one store, much less too! And then there’s that problem with the ex-best friend. The one Anne won’t talk about.
It’ll take a whole lot more than fancy book release parties to make the store profitable–much more. Although he’s not sure she wants to hear that. This one could take a degree in diplomacy. Too bad he missed that class in business school.
One destroyed friendship, two stores, one totally unwanted solution.
