This moving story about a magical bookstore explores the way war can shape a family and is
perfect for book lovers everywhere especially fans of Pages & Co. Pax and Wolf Hollow. It s
1944 Sutton NY and Poppy s family owns and runs Rhyme and Reason a magical bookshop that
caters to people from all different places and time periods. Though her world is ravaged by
World War II customers hail from the past and the future infusing the shop with a delightful
mix of ideas and experiences. Poppy dreams of someday becoming shopkeeper like her father
though her older brother Al is technically next in line for the job. She knows all of the
rules handed down from one generation of Bookseller to the next especially their most
important one: shopkeepers must never use the magic for themselves. But then Al s best friend
is killed in the war and her brother wants to use the magic of the shop to save him. With her
father in the hospital suffering from a mysterious illness the only one standing between Al
and the bookstore is Poppy. Caught between her love for her brother and loyalty to her family
she knows her brother s actions could have devastating consequences that reach far beyond the
bookshop as an insidious growing Darkness looms. This decision is bigger than Poppy ever
dreamed and the fate of the bookshops hangs in the balance.
