Every book tells a story. Every heart hides a secret.

The Lost Bookshop meets the Lost Apothecary in a beguiling novel full of secrets... Every heart is a doorway, and all stories are waiting to be told...

Evelyn Seaton's life is ruined when her father squanders her family's fortune. Secretly answering an advertisement for an assistant at the dusty and forgotten Lamplighter's Bookshop in York, Evelyn meets the enigmatic and prickly William Morton, an aspiring writer hiding secrets of his own.

But when her predicament is intensified by the spiteful Lady Violet, who is determined to twist the knife on Evelyn's misfortune, she has nowhere to turn. Evelyn and William are too scared to trust each other -- can they turn the page on their story and find the courage to write the next chapter?