When booksellers Molly O'Donnell and Emma Clarke meet at an estate sale in the posh Sherwood Forest neighborhood of Atlanta, they are both there for the books. But when they venture into a closed-off basement room full of antiquarian occult books and find the dead body of a notorious book thief, they learn that searching for old books may sometimes lead to murder. As they team up to find a killer and a missing manuscript, they discover that their feelings for each other are growing into more than friendship.