Margot Montgomery owns the town’s most beloved bookstore. She knows every customer’s name, every regular’s favorite book, and every hidden corner of Vermont’s quiet streets. Then Bennett Kensington opens a corporate bookstore across the street. He’s sharp, confident, and polished — everything she is not, and everything that makes her nervous. From the outside, they are enemies. He rolls his eyes at her sentimentality; she sneers at his slick efficiency. Their small-town feud is the talk of the