The Booksellers of Ruyashehir

Talya Askaan needs help finding her parents. And the only one who can really help her is Professor Yusef Tashkin, an underground books dealer and legendary archivist. But when she finally musters the courage to ask him for help, she is swept into a world of enchantment and wonder, filled with sparkling bookdust, never ending candle flames, self filling teacups, and a ruthless but charming rival with dark hair and brooding eyes.

Musa Kerada is no one. He lives on the meagre salary Yusef provides him for stacking and cleaning the shelves and archives. But anyone who has met Yusef can tell he is more than just a cleaning boy. He can speak in languages no one has ever heard of. He can procure recipes to dishes that are out of this world. He has read more books than anyone, even the professor, Yusef Tashkin. But who is he, and what use does Yusef truly have with him? And what is his interest in the new hire - a farmer girl with an eerie knack of reading minds..

It is said that Professor Yusuf Tashkin can find anything. Anything or anyone that was within the city of Ruyashehir, Yusuf could find it. Give him two days, a week, three months - any time he asked for, and he would find it.

But there was one thing in all his forty years of hunting and collecting that Yusuf Tashkin had not been able to find. One thing that frustrated him and gave him many sleepless nights. It was the elixir of gold - the Rahi potion that was said to have been made over four hundred years ago by a potion maker in Ruyashehir. It had disappeared along with its maker, never to be found.

That was until a young girl named Talya showed up at his door, bringing with her the breeze of dark, old tales from a lifetime ago. Tales that he thought had already been completed and finished, but that were resurfacing, bringing with them the scent of dreams long forgotten and secrets buried deep.