What the Mountains Remember
First, we have to pay homage to this gorgeous cover! Donโt 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 Iโve read, and I know ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ is going to transport me to another splendid and intriguing story.
๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ญ 1913โBelle Newbold hasnโt seen mountains for seven yearsโsince her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfatherโs business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once againโprimarily in order to reunite with her future fiancรฉ, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man sheโs only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way. Belle isnโt interested in love. She only wants a simple lifeโa family of her own and the stability of a wealthy manโs pockets. Thatโs what Worth Delafield has promised to give her and itโs 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 innโa construction the locals are calling The Eighth Wonder of the Worldโshe 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 sheโs come to claim as her own, and the truth of her heart, she begins to see that perhaps her part in Grove Parkโs story isnโt 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.