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

pressed her thumbnail into her finger so hard it left a purple half-moon mark, and she could not decide whether she was embarrassed at being seen so clearly or shaken by the fact that he had seen her without making her feel reduced.

Two weeks passed.

Kora did not walk down Newbury Street.

She translated. She worked with Amelia, her business partner of continue reading …