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

printed in Hungarian.

Adam Kalmar’s first collection.

Published in 1988 when he was twenty-three.

Only four hundred copies had been printed.

Kora had seen one once in a poetry library in Budapest, behind glass, where the librarian had refused to let her hold it.

Her breath caught.

“How did you get this?”

“A friend of a friend of a man who runs a Hungarian continue reading …