Basicly, its a bout a girl named Meggie, who's dad is a bookbinder. One day, a man shows up, and they leave her house. After her dad getting kidnapped, and her and a woman named Elinor being betrayed, She goes to a village where an evil man named Capricorn lives. Then, Meggie finds out her dad can read things out of books, and the consequences are the reason that her mother is gone.
I gave away some of the book, but that's all of it that I've read so far.