Book witch / Meg Shaffer.

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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.

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Kirkus Book Review

A young woman goes on an epic adventure while living out every book lover's dream. "All stories are love stories if you love stories," and Rainy March, a 27-year-old woman living in picturesque Fort Meriwether, Oregon, certainly loves stories. Rainy's love of literature goes beyond the surface--literally. In her job as a Book Witch, Rainy has the ability to step inside novels with the aid of her magical black umbrella and her feline familiar, Koshka. Rainy's job, along with the other members of the Ink and Paper Coven including her grandfather, is to save stories from being destroyed by so-called Burners--conservative villains who hop into books to kill off main characters from stories they find offensive to their traditional values--or from fictional characters who accidentally wander into the real world. Rainy's life is a little more complicated than that of your average Book Witch, however--once, on a mission, she stepped into a Duke of Chicago detective novel and fell in love with the titular Duke. Unfortunately, it's forbidden for a Book Witch to fall in love with a fictional character lest their love end up in the novel and the canon be changed forever. But then Rainy's grandfather goes missing on a Book Witch mission, and Rainy and the Duke must team up to track him down, along with a stolen copy of Nancy Drew'sThe Secret of the Old Clock that belonged to Rainy's late mother. Their adventures have them popping in and out of books, including, delightfully, a party scene inThe Great Gatsby, and uncovering secrets that could change the course of Rainy's life. While Shaffer's writing is a touch too cutesy to mine real emotional depths, the charms of the heroine and the conceit itself make up for it in spades. Catnip for anyone who ever wished they could walk around in their favorite book. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.