When the clock strikes twelve, the stories awaken. By day, Crescent Valley Public Library is an ordinary haven for readers. By night, it becomes something else entirely. When midnight arrives, ink glows like starlight, pages rustle with invisible winds, and those who borrow a book after 11:59 vanish into its tale, body and soul. Maya Chen never believed in the supernatural, but when three patrons disappear into the worlds of Dracula, Treasure Island, and Cinderella, she uncovers a secret legacy hidden in the stacks. She is the next Midnight Librarian, guardian of the boundary between fiction and reality. Armed only with a flickering lantern and her unshakable will, Maya must traverse realms of dark romance, cursed fairy tales, and haunted imagination to rescue the lost readers before sunrise. But the stories are changing. A fallen author is twisting beloved heroes into monsters. A sentient villain has learned to cross between books. And with every tick of the clock, the library's conjuring grows immensely. As dawn approaches, Maya faces an impossible truth: some stories manifest, they fight back, and only their guardian can decide who gets to write the ending.