N'yuton-Danbar, malen'kiy gorodok, spryatavshiysya v doline sredi gor na severo-vostoke Shotlandii, izvesten razve chto mayakom, kotoryy dvesti let nazad postroil ryadom so svoim domom mestnyy zemlevladelets, khotya do morya otsyuda sovsem ne blizko.
Seychas v nem nakhoditsya yedinstvennyy na mnogiye mili vokrug knizhnyy magazin-tsentr prityazheniya dlya lyubiteley chteniya, uyutnoy atmosfery, teploy besedy i khoroshego kofe.
Upravlyayushchaya knizhnym i zhivushchaya na verkhnem etazhe mayaka Reychel priyekhala syuda pyat' let nazad, sbezhav ot muzha-sadista i reshiv nachat' novuyu zhizn',-i obrela lyubimuyu rabotu i mesto, kotoroye nazyvayet teper' svoim domom. Posle vnezapnoy smerti vladel'tsa mayaka yey pridetsya vstupit' v bor'bu s nechestnymi del'tsami i neblagopriyatnymi obstoyatel'stvami, chtoby popytat'sya spasti knizhnyy na mayake, kotoryy zanyal vazhnoye mesto v zhizni mnogikh blizkikh yey lyudey...
