The stories in the books? (8)
I believe the answer is:
accounts
'the stories' is the definition.
('account' can be a synonym of 'story')
'books?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'books?' could be 'nt' (abbreviation for New Testament) and 'nt' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for accounts that I've seen before include "Rates" , "Gives financial reckoning, or explains cause" , "Narrative descriptions of events" , "bills" , "Record of financial transactions" .)