In 1717, Nicholas Flood is an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, who specialises in novelty books - books that nestle into one another, books comprised of one spare sentence, books that emit the sounds of crashing waves. When his work captures the attention of the mysterious Count Ostrov, Flood is summoned to a faraway castle - a moving labyrinth that embodies the count's obsession with puzzles - where he is commissioned to create the infinite book, the ultimate never-ending story.  Flood meets the Count's brilliant, beautiful yet damaged daughter Irena and begins to work on another book entirely...