The Vanishing Bookstore

Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore. 1692. On the outskirts of Salem,a bookstore stands covered in overgrown vines. Insidea young woman hides a linen-wrapped journal under a loose floorboard and runs awaypanicked by the sound of hounds barking in the distance. The bookstore vanishes into thin air… Present day. Stepping inside a pale-pink house on one of the oldest streets in SalemDora can’t believe she’s about to finally meet the mother she thought died tragically when she was just a child. But the excitement is short-lived. Dora’s mother has fear in her eyesand with a trembling voice she whispers: ‘my life is in dangerand now so is yours…’ Desperate not to lose her mother all over againDora digs into her family’s mysterious pastand stumbles upon a seemingly impossible secret: the key to their survival is hidden in a bookstore that no one has seen for generations. Losing herself amongst thorny brackens and twisted fernsDora eventually finds the path that leads to the bookstore. But someone is watching her. They’ve been waiting for her. As she pushes open the beautiful blue door hidden amongst the sharp bramblesand stands in front of rows of crumbling leatherbound books with faded pagesshe has no idea of the secrets she is about to uncover. Or that her life is in more danger than ever before…