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What the Mountains Remember

What the Mountains Remember

First, we have to pay homage to this gorgeous cover! Donโ€™t you just want to jump right into it!?!

I have loved the way Calloway brings the beauty off the pages and alive before my eyes in her past two books Iโ€™ve read, and I know ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ is going to transport me to another splendid and intriguing story.

๐˜ˆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ญ 1913โ€”Belle Newbold hasnโ€™t seen mountains for seven yearsโ€”since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfatherโ€™s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once againโ€”primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancรฉ, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man sheโ€™s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way. Belle isnโ€™t interested in love. She only wants a simple lifeโ€”a family of her own and the stability of a wealthy manโ€™s pockets. Thatโ€™s what Worth Delafield has promised to give her and itโ€™s worth facing the mountains again, the reminder of the past, and her poverty, to secure her future.

But when the Vagabonds group is invited to tour the unfinished Grove Park Inn and Belle is unexpectedly thrust into a role researching and writing about the building of the innโ€”a construction the locals are calling The Eighth Wonder of the Worldโ€”she quickly realizes that these mountains are no different from the ones she once called home. As Belle peels back the facade of Grove Park Inn, of Worth, of the society sheโ€™s come to claim as her own, and the truth of her heart, she begins to see that perhaps her part in Grove Parkโ€™s story isnโ€™t a coincidence after all. Perhaps it is only by watching a wonder rise from ordinary hands and mountain stone that she can finally find the strength to piece together the long-destroyed path toward who she was meant to be.

The Husbands

The Husbands

Pub Day

Pub Day