The Next Always

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! _

https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-211-the-next-always/