Maggie Skye is the middle-aged proprietess of Signatures, a quirky bookstore in a Pacific Northwest university town. She enjoys the serene company of good books, devoted employees, and loyal customers. Then into her life comes Paloma, a scrawny young waif with a Tarot deck, a collection of tattoos, and a turbulent history, who forces Maggie to realize that her own veneer of contentment cannot obliterate the secrets of her troubled past. Goaded by her provocative friends -- including Hanz, the bookstore's gruff resident author, and her own sister Laurel -- Maggie must summon the bravery to confront long-buried ghosts -- even when they land on her doorstep.This debut novel was inspired by the author's youthful days as a student of architecture, when she designed this bookstore as her own sanctuary and eventually peopled it with those characters who wrestled their way inside.
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