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Georgia Summers

The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers book only (Illumicrate 'Stories Within Stories' Exclusive)

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About the product

The bookshop must have an owner. . .

If you want a story that will change your life, Chiron's bookshop is where you go. For those lucky enough to grace its doors, it's a glimpse into a world of deadly bargains and powerful, magical books.

For Cassandra Fairfax, it's a reminder of everything she lost, when Chiron kicked her out and all but shuttered the shop. Since then, she's used her skills in less . . . ethical ways, trading stolen books and magical readings to wealthy playboys looking for power money can't buy.

Then Chiron dies. And if Cassandra knows anything, it's this: the bookshop must always have an owner.

To restore the shop, she'll need the help of Lowell Sharpe, a rival bookseller who is everything Cassandra is not - and knows it, too.

But as she is plunged into a world of unscrupulous collectors, deadly ink magic and shady societies, a dark force threatens to unravel the bookshops entirely . . .

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @joseeshimazaki; design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @harkalelinai)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @joseeshimazaki)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @amaretta_); different front and back
  • Bound-in author letter
  • Bonus content
  • Digitally signed by the author (on the author letter)
  • M/F main romance, POC secondary characters
  • Adult fantasy standalone

Photos by @bookwormgram

"Georgia Summers's magical bookshop is my new favorite place." ― Laini Taylo

"Steeped in bookish magic and infused with the comfort and terror of a favourite tragic fairytale, The Bookshop Below is darkly whimsical and utterly heartwrenching." ― Tori Bovalino,

About the Author

Georgia Summers is a half-British, half-Trinidadian writer, who spent most of her life living across the world, including Russia, Colombia and the US. When she’s not doing bookish things, she’s planning her next great adventure. She currently lives in London, but she dreams of one day living in a haunted château with a ghost that cleans.

Content warnings for The Bookshop Below:

  • Content Warning

    • Blood
    • Gore
    • Violence
    • Fire
    • Death including murder and animal death
    • Grief and depictions of grief
    • Consensual sex

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