Belle ran home excitedly. The bookshop had gotten a new romance the day before, and the bookseller had taken care to set it aside for Belle, because he knew that she would want to read it.

"Belle? You're home early today?"

"Oh, sorry Papa, I'll return to town in the afternoon and finish the errands, I promise, but they had a new book today!"

"Very well," he chuckled. "It sounds exciting."

"It is!" she exclaimed. "She found a lost dog, and it's actually the prince's prized hunting dog, and…"

"And then what happens?"

"I need to read the rest now."