#1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater dazzles in this enchanting portrait of an irresistible heroine, an not going romance, and a inn—and a global—in peril.
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has constantly supplied elegant luxurious in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of excessive society’s problems.
Local girl-became-fashionable manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully thru the primary pangs of battle. The Gilfoyles, the motel’s aristocratic proprietors, have skilled her properly. But whilst the own family heir makes a secret cope with the State Department to fill the inn with captured Axis diplomats, June must convince her group of workers—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front traces—to provide luxury to Nazis. With a grin.
Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo suggestions at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the motel’s partitions, listening for the diplomats’ secrets. He has considered one of his personal, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act will have dangerous effects: the sweetwater under the lodge can threaten in addition to heal.
June has in no way met a visitor she couldn’t satisfaction, however the diplomats are unique. Without firing a single shot, they have got brought the battle at once to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the authentic cost of luxurious.