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The vanishing type, Ellery Adams

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The vanishing type

Ellery Adams

While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a good book. Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet - until Deputy Andrews pulls Nora into the sci-fi section and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. His bride-to-be, Hester, loves 'Little Women,' and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theatre. But right before the deputy pops the question, Nora makes an unsettling discovery - someone has mutilated all her store's copies of 'The Scarlet Letter,' slicing angrily into the pages wherever Hester Prynne's name is mentioned. When a dead man is found on a hiking trail just outside town, carrying a rare book, the members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society unearth a connection to Hester's past