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

it sounded like how her father might have played it in his sixties if he had lived long enough to become an old man.

Kora listened.

This time, she did not press her thumbnail.

When it ended, she asked if Liam was there.

“He is upstairs,” Henry said. “He asked me not to be in this room while you listened. He said the room was small enough as it was.”

Kora continue reading …