diff --git a/exercises/practice/grep/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/practice/grep/.docs/introduction.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4041290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exercises/practice/grep/.docs/introduction.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Introduction
+
+You have taken a job at a local library helping organize their collection of old books.
+The student patrons are often hunting for half-remembered quotes to cite in their term papers.
+Rather than manually read every book from cover to cover, you decide to build a small tool to scan them, looking for these partial quotes.