By Nora Roberts
"America's favourite writer" (The New Yorker) starts off an all-new trilogy-inspired by way of the resort she owns and the city she loves.
The historical inn in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has persevered battle and peace, altering palms, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a big facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mom. because the architect of the kinfolk, Beckett's social lifestyles is composed often of speaking store over pizza and beer. yet there's one other venture he's acquired his eye on: the woman he's been ready to kiss on account that he used to be fifteen...
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