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

college and spent a year and a half sitting across from lawyers and accountants, learning the company by reading their papers upside down from across a table.

The drawer in his office held his father’s pocket watch.

Henry had removed it from his father’s wrist before the medics could, because he did not want strangers to be the ones who took it off. continue reading …