Pros: Love the ghost; enjoyable pair of characters; love the setting and hearing more about the inn concepts; you can really “see” the setting
Cons: If you don’t care about the inn, this might come across like a sales pitch; the stalker plot is predictable and feels tacked-on for tension’s sake; the main characters aren’t the most interesting ones in the book
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Review book (uncorrected proof) courtesy of Penguin Group
Expected publication date: 11/1/2011

Beckett Montgomery is one-third of a trio of brothers renovating and rebuilding the venerable Inn Boonsboro for their mother—and themselves. He’s the architect of the family, and he’s having a blast working with the historic building. Since everyone in the small town continually pesters him and his brothers for details on how things are going and what the inn will look like, it makes a great pretense to chat frequently with a certain bookstore owner—one he’s had a crush on since she was 16. Of course now Clare is widowed, with children, and a successful businesswoman. She’s changed—is she still the woman he could love? Can he handle the way her life revolves around her children and her business? And what will he do when the inn’s ghost gets nosy, and Clare develops a rather determined stalker? For such a small town, things sure do get exciting…

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