Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels.So when Bookend s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put down her books and join the real world. Because Posy hasn t just inherited an ailing business, but also the unwelcome attentions of Lavinia s grandson, Sebastian, AKA The Rudest Man In London(TM).Posy has a cunning plan and six months to transform Bookends into the bookshop of her dreams - if only Sebastian would leave her alone to get on with it. As Posy and her friends fight to save their beloved bookshop, Posy s drawn into a battle of wills with Sebastian, about whom she s started to have some rather feverish fantasies...Like her favourite romantic heroines, will she get her happy ever after too?