★Rights sold to Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, English(English territories), France, Turkiye, Hungary.
★The Tarot Reading Café was selected as a Grand Prize winner of the 12th Brunch Book Publishing Project (Fiction Category), beating out 1,307 other entries. It is a sharp psychological novel and a romance healing novel that calmly captures the raw emotions of anxiety, desire, and love through the eyes of a tarot card reader, who quietly reads people’s wavering hearts.
★I will read your heart that even you don’t know. A story of love, growth, and healing discovered through tarot cards.

“Shin Se-ryun” has given up her dream of becoming a novelist and now makes a living as a tarot card reader in a small café. After breaking up with her boyfriend of 13 years, “Ahn Yoon-joo,” Se-ryun spends her days counseling people who come to her with their problems through a tarot reading. One day, her senior Yoonha offers her a job as a webtoon story writer. Her collaborator is “Yoo Jinju,” a young and free-spirited webtoon artist.

As the collaboration with Jinju beings, changes come to Se-ryun’s daily life. Jinju’s honest and blunt personality upsets Se-ryun. When Se-ryun falls ill with a cold, Yoon-joo appears and nurses her for a night, creating a strange tension between the two. Meanwhile, during a night out with Jinju, Se-ryun opens up about herself for the first time. She shares her experience growing up in poverty, her mother’s alcoholism, and the burden of having to care for her younger siblings. After hearing about Se-ryun’s past, Jinju begins to see her in a new light.

The story takes a new turn when Jinju invites Se-ryun to his home. Se-ryun spends a leisurely time at Jinju’s place, but is hurt by Jinju’s remark that, to him, she is an object of curiosity, like a “junk food.” Jinju soon confesses his true feelings, and Se-ryun accepts their breakup when she learns from her last phone call with Yoon-joo that he is with a new woman. At the same time, she decides to part with her family and leaves daily necessities at her old house for the last time.

Moon Hye Joung majored in psychology and worked as a marketer for many years. After heaving her job, she pursued her interests one by one and eventually became a florist. She is the author of flower essay, Every Moment that Needs Flowers, and books of flower art, Eco Flower Recipes, and Flower Work Diary Through the Four Seasons. She began writing The Tarot Reading Café to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a novelist.