

But when Maddie dies and her niece, Madeline, barges in like a bulldozer, Janet pushes at the new owner in every way-until she trips over common ground. Madeline soon finds herself at odds with employees Janet and Claire when she also finds herself attracted to an affianced man, it only confuses the entire situation.Īfter blowing up her marriage two years earlier, Jessica has found solace working at the bookstore and a kindred spirit within its owner, Maddie Cullen. She quits in protest, takes the train north, and decides to work at the store to prep it for sale. When attorney Madeline Carter inherits her aunt’s bookstore in a small town north of Chicago, she plans to sell it and add the proceeds to her nonexistent “investment portfolio.” But plans change when Madeline discovers the store isn’t making money and she gets passed over for promotion at her firm. Has she been too quick to dismiss her aunt’s beloved shop? And even if she has, the women’s best efforts to save it may be too little, too late.Amid literature and lattes, three women come together and find that sharing one’s journey with best friends makes life richer. When Madeline’s professional life falls apart, and a handsome gardener upends her life, she questions her plans and her future. Claire, though quieter than her outspoken colleague, feels equally drawn to the daily rhythms of the shop and has found a renewed sense of purpose within its walls. Reeling from a recent divorce, Janet finds sanctuary within the books and the decadent window displays she creates.

While Madeline intends to sell the shop as quickly as possible, the Printed Letter’s two employees have other ideas. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened Madeline’s heart toward her once-treasured aunt-and the now struggling bookshop left in her care. One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. All can be found at the Printed Letter Bookshop in the small, charming town of Winsome.
