The Belrose Affair

She closes dying hotels for a living. She was not supposed to fall in love with one.Penelope Vance is the woman they send when a grand old hotel is finished. She walks in, she signs the papers, she leaves before she can feel a thing. The Belrose was supposed to be easy. One more corpse. One more flight home.Then she walked into the lobby.She did not plan on the doorman who had held that door for forty years. Or the housekeeper who ran the place like family. Or the front desk man with a hard past and a gentle strength, who looked at her and saw the girl she used to be, the one from the projects, the one she had spent thirty years hiding under a good suit and a sharp smile.She did not plan on falling in love with the building. Or with him.But someone wants the Belrose gone. There is a secret buried in the sale, a betrayal waiting in the dark, and a woman from Penelope's own past who taught her everything she knows about closing the deal and walking away clean. To save the hotel, and the people who became her family, and the man who taught her how to stay, Penelope will have to do the one thing she swore she never would.She will have to stop running. She will have to let herself be seen.The Belrose Affair is a warm, faith-threaded romance about second chances, hard-won love, and the grace that refuses to give up on the people the world throws away.