Overdue (The Library Trilogy, #1.5)

by Mark Lawrence

To sell a book I need to match a text to a type and arrange a happy marriage, or torrid affair, or merely a debauched weekend, but whichever it is it needs to be a discovery, something that would not have happened without my intervention. That, my dear Miss Pency, is how books are sold rather than merely purchased.”

Nicholas had expected her to enjoy the book. But he hadn’t imagined that lighting would strike twice and that it would undo her as it had undone him.