When a romance bookshop owner and Australia’s most infamous novelist collide, the greatest story they write might be their own.
Margie Hopkins came to the small town of Bareela to disappear. After walking away from a toxic relationship, she’s determined to start fresh—pouring her heart into Love Story, the cosy, romance-themed bookshop she’s dreamed of for years. The shelves may be stacked with happily-ever-afters, but Margie isn’t convinced she deserves one of her own.
Enter Digger Manning: literary sensation, national heartthrob, and a man drowning in writer’s block. Renting out the office above her shop was supposed to pay Margie’s bills, not upend her life. Brooding, demanding, and relentless in his pursuit of truth, Digger is nothing like the heroes that line her shelves. Yet behind the armour, Margie glimpses a man who’s lost his way.
As Bareela weaves them together—between late-night book debates, unexpected tenderness, and the slow thaw of guarded hearts—Margie and Digger begin to rewrite their own stories. She helps him find what his words have been missing. He shows her she’s never been “too much”—that she’s exactly enough.
Love Between the Shelves
Publisher: Trelawney Street Books
Publication date: 30 September 2025
Language: English
Print length: 270 pages
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Item weight: 426 g
Dimensions: 13.97 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm
Part of series: The Bareela Series