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

in Boston because she chaired the board, and the board wanted him to make a financing decision he did not want to make.

The brass plate said Donovan Lancing because his grandfather named the building for the architect in 1962, and taking the architect’s name off the door would be unkind to a dead man no longer able to hear it.

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