For stay-at-home mum Ellie Haskell, life grows ever more hectic. But once she's made peace between lovelorn Gerta, her twins' new Swiss nanny, and Mrs. Malloy, her caustic daily help, everything else should fall tidily into place. Time enough for Ellie to slim down, pick up the threads of her design career, and kick the romance-reading habit that keeps her from her marital boudoir till dawn.Yet Ellie's hopes for a settled existence are dashed when, arriving for the Chitterton Fells Library League meeting, she stumbles upon a corpse among the fiction stacks: Miss Bunch, who ruled the library with a rod of iron, lies sprawled next to an open copy of The Dream Lover. Shockingly, the librarian's demise exactly coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the death of Mr. Hector Rigglesworth, the Chitterton Fells Library ghost, a man with a deep grudge against the romantic novels that kept his seven daughters endlessly holding out for the perfect suitor. Read Less