A Dragon in the Poetry Section
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The day Marnie Quill is evicted from her aunt’s bookshop, the town crier reads the notice aloud in the market square while her ex-boyfriend smiles from the front row. That night, a dragon crashes through her roof and lands in Poetry.
He shrinks into a tall young man wearing a velvet curtain, looks around at four thousand dusty books and announces that the shop is now his hoard. Marnie, who can hear what books feel, hears every single one of them purr.
Idris Emberfall is grumpy, enormous and ferociously protective, and he guards her shop like treasure. He also holds every book upside down, because the youngest son of the Mountain Court has a secret he would burn down the town to keep: he cannot read. Marnie has thirty days to save her shop and one winter to teach a dragon his letters, and it is getting harder to say whose hoard is whose.
He shrinks into a tall young man wearing a velvet curtain, looks around at four thousand dusty books and announces that the shop is now his hoard. Marnie, who can hear what books feel, hears every single one of them purr.
Idris Emberfall is grumpy, enormous and ferociously protective, and he guards her shop like treasure. He also holds every book upside down, because the youngest son of the Mountain Court has a secret he would burn down the town to keep: he cannot read. Marnie has thirty days to save her shop and one winter to teach a dragon his letters, and it is getting harder to say whose hoard is whose.















































