The Next Always
Ratings13
Average rating4.1
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Ratings13
Average rating4.1
“America's favorite writer” (The New Yorker) begins a trilogy inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves. The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there’s another project he’s got his eye on: the girl he’s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen. After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster soon settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town’s bookstore. Though busy, Clare is drawn across the street by Beckett’s transformation of the old inn, wanting to take a closer look…at both the building and the man behind it... Don't miss the other books in the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy The Last Boyfriend The Perfect Hope
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3 primary booksInn BoonsBoro Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Nora Roberts.
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Look, it's Nora Roberts, you're getting small-town coziness, banter, and three best friends who we all know are gonna conveniently end up married to three brothers. This leaned a little harder into supernatural than I expected it would, especially in the last couple chapters or so, what with the ghost living in the hotel writing a message in steam on a mirror to save the FMC from being kidnapped/assaulted, but weirdly I didn't mind it? Pretty low-conflict, low-heat for sure, but an easy comforting type of read. CW behind cut: CW for stalker and some brief sections from his POV, assault and threats. FMC's husband died in the Iraq War, some discussion of that but nothing detailed that I recall.
(2022 Summer Romance Bingo: architect. Would also work for Halloween, ghost, second chance, and widowed protagonist.)
I think this might be my new fav Nora book! I loved Clare and her kids so much. And I'm not normally the biggest fan of Nora's home renovations fetish but I thought the inn sounded so interesting. And ofc it helped that I was treating it like a travel guide for our trip to BoonsBoro! _
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