Nora Fitzgerald doesn't believe in magic. After eighteen months of grief that turned her into a ghost of herself, she's learned that hope is just another word for disappointment waiting to happen. As a travel writer for a New York magazine, she's built her reputation on clever takedowns—finding the cracks in charming facades and exposing them for readers who share her suspicion that nothing is ever as good as it seems.When her editor assigns her to Vermont's Winterbell Inn, a bouti...

This is the book you can’t put down!Claire Calloway thought she had her life figured out. A good job in Manhattan advertising. A boyfriend of four years. A best friend she trusted completely. Then she walks into her apartment and finds Ryan and Jessica together, and three days later, she's laid off from the career she built over six years.At twenty-nine, Claire has nothing: no relationship, no job, no reason to stay in a city that suddenly feels like a crim...