Like many other used booksellers, Delhi Laine, proprieter of Secondhand Prose, dreams of making the Great Find—if not a Shakespearean Folio, then at least a fragment of an Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. But after receiving a very rare and valuable children's book into her collection, she finds out such treasures can come at a terrible cost—the suspicious death of one colleague and another left for dead days later.