Reading Between the Spells
A Cozy Fantasy Romance

About this book:

Elsie Finch has spent seven contented years dusting grimoires, pricing penny charms, and pretending the brass kettle doesn't scream like a scalded owl. She likes her life predictable: cold tea, mended bindings, and a shop where the most dangerous thing on the shelves is a water-finding compass gone mad in the rain. Then Julian Bramwell opens *Bramwell & Co.* across the cobblestones—polished, pretentious, and infuriatingly good at the trade—and the quiet balance of Weaver's Lane shatters.

When a scrap of vellum in the discount bin reveals Elsie's own name written in a century-old blood covenant, her employer confesses the truth: she isn't an employee. She's the anchor holding a sealed grimoire shut, bound by a lineage she never knew she had. And the wards are failing.

With the shop's eccentric owner retreating into secrets, a rival bookseller who sees straight through her defenses, and something ancient waking in the locked third floor, Elsie must decode the ledger her grandfather left behind—before the book opens itself and claims the debt written in her blood. *Reading Between the Spells* is a cozy fantasy romance where enemies become allies, dusty shelves hide deadly bargains, and the most dangerous magic of all might be falling for the man across the street.