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

The case for you is that you have not been counting since approximately the slow set at your sister’s wedding.”

Kora laughed.

For the first time in six months and four days, the laugh moved her shoulders properly.

Liam wrote two days later.

Short letter.

Plain heavy paper.

No letterhead.

He told her Henry had found an old cassette recording of the Bartók continue reading …