THE EMPTY CHAIR AT HER SISTER’S WEDDING WAS SUPPOSED TO PROVE HER FIANCÉ HAD LEFT HER—BUT WHEN A QUIET STRANGER SAT BESIDE HER, KORA NEVER IMAGINED HE OWNED THE HOTEL, OR THAT HIS FAMILY WAS ALREADY PLANNING THE MARRIAGE THAT COULD DESTROY THEM BOTH

carefully into the velvet pouch she had brought.

“You saved a wedding morning,” she told the housekeeper.

“It would not be the first,” the woman said, and kept wiping.

Kora thanked her and stepped into the corridor.

That was when she walked straight into the man from the wedding.

He was carrying a clipboard.

He did not drop it.

He did not react the way most continue reading …