The Bookshop Between Seasons

Margot Holloway has spent her life in books, hiding from the world rather than living in it. When her estranged grandmother passes away unexpectedly, Margot inherits Perennial Pages—a chaotic, underfunded secondhand bookshop tucked into Portland's Pearl District. Desperate to save the business her grandmother loved, Margot hires Iris Chen, a brilliant and irreverent literature graduate student whose passion for stories matches only her cynicism about the world.
As they work late into autumn nights salvaging the bookshop, Margot and Iris discover that stories have a way of bringing people together. What begins as a professional partnership deepens into something neither of them expected: a love that challenges everything they thought they wanted from life.
But saving a bookshop is only the beginning. As Margot and Iris build something meaningful together, they must navigate impossible choices about ambition, security, legacy, and what it truly means to choose each other.
The Bookshop Between Seasons is a sweeping love story about two people who discover that the most transformative power of literature isn't in reading it—it's in creating spaces where others can find themselves. A novel about community, belonging, and the quiet heroism of building something that matters more than safety.