Miranda Brooks loved her eccentric Uncle Billy’s bookstore Prospero. Both she and the store named after characters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. And she loved the scavenger hunts and riddles that he gave her. But one evening when she was twelve her mother had a mysterious argument with Billy and Miranda didn’t see or hear from her uncle for sixteen years. She grows up and becomes a teacher in Philadelphia and moves in with her boyfriend who is also a teacher Then suddenly she receives notice that not only has her uncle Billy died but when she flies out to LA to attend his funeral she discovers he has also left her the bookstore in his will. When Miranda returns to Prospero, now as its owner, she discovers that the bookstore is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. She also discovers that her uncle has left her another scavenger hunt filled with riddles. She finds clues that Billy has hidden for her in books on the shop shelves, in locked drawers, and in the furniture of his apartment above the store. Miranda resolves to save the book store despite the danger of losing her relationships with her boyfriend and her mother. She embarks on a final hunt to find the clues and answers to her life and her uncles that her uncle has hidden for her to find. -Thomas D.