Some stories are waiting to be reopened...Eleanor Vance's world is one of quiet routines and whispered pages, safely curated within her beloved Bloomsbury bookshop. Her deepest connection is to a rare, mysterious volume—a collection of Celtic folk tales inscribed with the love notes of a stranger named Isla.Alistair Thorne's world ended four years ago with the death of his wife. A once-celebrated writer, he is now a ghost of himself, haunted by the memory of the one book he wrote for her—a book he was forced to sell and has been searching for ever since.When a rain-soaked Alistair walks into Eleanor's shop, their lives collide with the force of fate. The book he seeks is in her hands. The love notes in the margin were written to him. And the invisible thread that connects them was spun decades ago by a twist of destiny neither could have imagined.Bound by this shared, painful past, they tentatively begin a new story. But can a love built on the foundation of a great loss ever find its own happy ending? Or are some hearts only meant to hold one great love?The Binding of Forgetting and Thorn is a deeply moving, literary romance about healing, second chances, and the magical way stories can connect us across time. It’s for anyone who believes that love, like a well-loved book, can be revisited, re-read, and can find new life in the hands of the right person.---