Bookshops & Bonedust

A good alternative if you love bookshops, or if you want to meet Viv years before she ever dreamed of opening a coffee shop.

Why Start Here

Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel, set long before Legends & Lattes, when a much younger Viv is sidelined by a leg injury and left to recover in a sleepy seaside town. There she falls in with a struggling bookseller and a cast of local misfits, and discovers the pleasure of a quiet life and a good story. It carries the same warm, low-stakes charm as its predecessor, with a little more adventure around the edges.

You can read it first or second: it works perfectly well as a standalone. Some readers actually prefer starting here because it shows Viv before she softened. Still, most people meet her in the coffee shop first, which is why we point you there to begin.

What to Expect

A cozy, bookish comfort read with a touch more plot than Legends & Lattes, including a looming necromancer to keep things interesting. The heart of it, though, is friendship, community, and the magic of the right book finding the right reader.