The Book Witch

Rainy March is a third-generation Book Witch, a guardian of fiction who carries a magical umbrella and keeps a cat as her familiar. She slips into novels to repair tampered text and to catch heroes who have gone rogue, much as a magical Nancy Drew might. She can enter any book, but she cannot stay in one.

Her coven lives by firm rules. Real people belong in the real world, and characters belong on the page. Nobody eats, drinks or sleeps inside a story, or risks becoming part of it.

Falling for a character is forbidden, and Rainy has already been warned off the Duke of Chicago, a dashing British detective from her favorite mystery series. One more meeting and she loses her place in the coven, along with the magic that is as much a part of her as her name.

Then her grandfather vanishes and a priceless book is stolen. The only person Rainy trusts with the case is the Duke, so she risks everything to work with him.

The investigation carries the pair through the worlds of Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur and other classics, where hidden enemies and old family secrets wait. It is a fantasy mystery with a romantic thread and a warm, bookish tone.