Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Hannah Baldwin has spent years dreaming of a place where people can come in from the weather-not just storms over Bear Lake, but loneliness, worry, and the ache of carrying too much alone.With the help of the women who have become her chosen family, she opens The Story Lady: a bookstore, café, bakery, children’s corner, and local art space overlooking the lake. There are shelves to fill, soup pots to tame, cinnamon rolls to test, children to welcome, paintings to hang, and more crises than any grand opening should reasonably require. But as the store slowly becomes the heart of the town, Hannah discovers that building a dream is not the same as holding it by herself.Around The Ladies’ Table, amid coffee cups, crumbs, laughter, and hard-earned honesty, friendships deepen into something steadier than support. And while Hannah learns to trust the community gathering around her, Benjamin Maiden quietly becomes part of the story too-patient, familiar, and suddenly much more central than she expected.Warm, funny, and tender, The Dreaming Lady is a small-town novel about books, belonging, found family, second chances, and the beautiful truth that no one should have to dream alone.
