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

Liam’s mother gave it back to him on his twenty-fifth birthday when she also handed him the chair of the company. He had not been able to wear it. He had not been able to put it anywhere else.

Henry said the drawer was not a bad place for it.

The drawer was in the room where the work happened.

And the work was the watch.

His mother, Cordelia Donovan, was continue reading …