Robin Tucker started ordering inspirational and Christian books over the Internet when she could not find what she wanted on the Island.

Friends and family were so taken by her choice of titles that they asked her to buy books for them. She then went on to sell some of the most popular titles in her church.

That all started five years ago, and now she has seen her bookselling become so successful that she has opened her own bookstore.

Integrity Books, on Camp Hill in Southampton opened its doors on January 6, and Mrs. Tucker said she hopes that she will be able to make a go of it selling the books, cds and DVDs as well as cards and bible covers.

"It was something I felt I just had to do," she said yesterday at her bookstore. Mrs.Tucker gave up her job as a corporate administrator at Wakefield Quin in November in order to open the store and study psychology.

She hopes to eventually become a Christian counsellor after taking her masters degree and special courses.

Mrs. Tucker said she has saved up to get the stock for the store, and the more she sells the more she hopes to bring in.

"I am doing everything as I go," she said. "I will order books every week, and we will see how it goes."

Mrs. Tucker said she has not given herself and her business a timeline for success, but instead is taking life a day at a time.

"It is all in how you choose your books," she said. "You don't just sell them. What I want to be able to do is to have the public tell me what they want."