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

had spent the day writing a letter for it. Henry had read it.

“It is, in my professional opinion, the kind of letter that costs the company a credit line.”

Kora put down the phone.

She stood in her kitchen and did not cry, because after six months of not crying properly, she had not relearned how.

She only said aloud to nobody, “All right.”

Then she slept continue reading …