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

to the buzzer.

Two minutes later, she returned with Liam Donovan behind her.

He carried a flat brown paper package under one arm.

Kora stood.

“He said he had a delivery,” Amelia said in a voice that promised a great many questions later.

“Hello,” Liam said to Kora.

“Hello.”

He set the package on the long table.

Amelia looked him slowly up and down with the continue reading …