Fine Print: A Bookshop on Main Novel

By Ellie Carlisle

She designs everything but her own life, then drafts twelve pages for a fake one.

The bookshop on Main is called The Recommendation, and for eleven months Rae Sato has drifted to the same corner table, making beautiful covers for other people's stories with a pencil she keeps forgetting in her hair. Jonah Wilder shoes horses eight miles out of town. He reads Westerns at the counter and Austen where no one can see him do it, and he has been watching that corner table longer than he would ever admit.

Then Rae's ex announces his wedding. In Ashby, the one town she moved to precisely because it was the place he wasn't. She needs a plus-one who can survive a barn full of string lights and gentle questions, and Jonah says yes before she can finish asking. So Rae does the only thing she trusts herself to do: she designs the relationship. Twelve pages, clauses and contingencies, a tidy document for a thing that is supposed to stay pretend.

Fine Print is a cozy small-town romance about the terms we set to keep ourselves safe, and the ones worth tearing up. The trouble with a good design is that it starts to look like a life you might actually want, lime in the fridge and all.

A small-town, fake-dating romance. Closed-door, dual POV, with a twelve-page contract, a quiet farrier who reads Austen in secret, an ex's wedding to survive, and a guaranteed happy ending.

Book 10 in The Bookshop on Main series. Can be read as a standalone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H369HPL9
• ISBN13: 9798198916548
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"