"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...

Brooke Holloway is raising six-year-old Meghan and ten-year-old Spencer on her own two years after her husband's death; Owen Saunders, who has bought an old house to restore, has a heart that needs restoring after a failed marriage, and he finds he is tempted by happiness when he meets Brooke.

"Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter summons him to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder--a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice in their small community. Emmett has always been drawn to books, even though they are forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and under her watchful eye he learns to craft elegant leather-bound volumes in which they will capture something...