A fairytale ending isn't just for fiction... The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months on from the winter flood that destroyed all its stock, and the latest temporary bookseller, Joy Foley, arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl. As a tech expert, she'll be working on dragging the Bookshop into the twenty-first century.

But what no one knows is that Joy is running from Radia Pearl's father. She can't settle down here or anywhere ... moving on is how she stays safe.

So when Radia befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman and the new cook at The Siren's Tail pub, despite herself, Joy finds herself growing closer to him, and the quirky community of Clove Lore. While Joy settles in to the bookshop, Araminta Clove-Congreve, local lady of the Manor, is finding running her new wedding business harder than anticipated. She needs to hire a chief wedding planner, and fast - and Joy's family may have the answer.

As Joy finds her heart softening by the magic of Clove Lore, can her new friends - and Monty - be enough to convince Joy to stop running and find a new life?