The Book Witch
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<She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there.< Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the <USA Today< bestselling author of< The Wishing Game.< Rainy March is a proud third...Format auswählen
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Beschreibung
<She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there.< Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the <USA Today< bestselling author of< The Wishing Game.<
Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps into and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes.
Book witches live by a strict code: <Real people belong in the real word; fictional characters belong in works of fiction…. Do not eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story.< Falling in love with a fictional character? Don’t even think about it.
Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. If she’s ever caught with him again, she’ll be expelled from her book coven—and forced to give up the magical gifts that are as much a part of her as her own name.
But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there’s only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke. Their quest takes them through the worlds of <Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby, <and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
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Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into twenty-three languages*.* Shaffer holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and two cats. The cats are not writers.
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She can hop into any novel, but she just can’t stay there.
Come along with the Book Witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game.
This hardcover edition includes gorgeously designed endpapers!
“Meg Shaffer continues to surprise and delight me with each book she writes.”—Laurie Gilmore, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café**
Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a modern-day magical Nancy Drew.
Book Witches live by a strict code: Real people belong in the real world; fictional characters belong in works of fiction. Do not eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story. Falling in love with a fictional character? Don’t even think about it.
Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. If she’s ever caught with him again, she’ll be expelled from her book coven—and forced to give up the magical gifts that are as much a part of her as her own name.
But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there’s only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke. Their quest takes them through the worlds of Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
Zusammenfassung
**She can hop into any novel, but she just can’t stay there.
Come along with the Book Witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game.
“Meg Shaffer continues to surprise and delight me with each book she writes.”—Laurie Gilmore, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café**
Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a modern-day magical Nancy Drew.
Book Witches live by a strict code: Real people belong in the real world; fictional characters belong in works of fiction. Do not eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story. Falling in love with a fictional character? Don’t even think about it.
Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. If she’s ever caught with him again, she’ll be expelled from her book coven—and forced to give up the magical gifts that are as much a part of her as her own name.
But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there’s only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke. Their quest takes them through the worlds of Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
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Chapter One
Two Years Ago
All stories are love stories if you love stories.
And I do love stories. As a Book Witch, you kind of have to love them. It’s on our recruitment posters, after all.
My name is Rainy March, and yes, it’s a bad pun and also a weather forecast, and no, sorry, I can’t change it now. It’s already embroidered into my underwear and printed on my bookplates.
This love story starts with a phone call, one of those pivotal moments you don’t realize will change your life until much, much later. It was two years ago on September 1st, back when I was a young and mostly innocent Book Witch of twenty-five. I don’t even have to look at my case notes to remember the exact date. After all, you never forget the day you fall in love with a fictional character.
Of course, having a crush on a fictional character is nothing new. Sherlock Holmes used to get more fan mail than his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Women would write 221B Baker Street proposing marriage to the fictional consulting detective, or simply offering their services as housekeepers to get close to him.
What I really mean is . . . you never forget the day a fictional character falls in love with you back.
Admittedly, I also remember the day in question was the first of the month because Koshka, my feline familiar, gets his flea and tick preventative applied on the first. Right before the phone rang, I had the boy wrapped in a towel and wedged between my knees on the bathroom floor. I can’t say who was enjoying it less, me or my cat.
“Big baby,” I said as he wiggled under me, slippery as a hot-buttered eel. “It’ll take two seconds. Do you want to get a tapeworm? No. No, you don’t.”
From inside his bath-towel burrito, he let out a piteous whine.
“All this fussing from a familiar.” The familiars of Book Witches are like normal pets except they can read. They certainly don’t handle taking medication any better than normal pets. “It’ll be over in a second, buddy.” With one hand, I parted the thick silvery gray fur on the back of his neck while I popped the medicine cap with the other. “Be strong, comrade! You are Russian. Act like it!”
He isn’t actually Russian, but don’t tell him that. He’s…