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

asked a pianist to play a Bartók lullaby at a wedding I was not invited to,” Liam said slowly. “And a woman I had never seen before sat out two songs near the dance floor, and I wanted to know what the music had done to her. I did not ask. Later, I looked up a name. The name had published an essay on a Hungarian poet I had never heard of. That essay continue reading …