The Next Always

Author: Nora Roberts
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2014
Pages: 336
Rating: Do Not Recommend

Synopsis: The historic hotel BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girls he's been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen.

After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town's bookstore. Though busy, Clare is drawn across the street by Beckett's transformation of the old inn, wanting to a closer look, both at the building and the man behind it.

Review: I wanted another fun, fluff novel, but this one just didn't do it for me. The fluff factor was there in a predictable romance, but the supporting plot was very much meh. This was my first Nora Roberts novel and if this is "typical" then I don't think I'll read another, not even to continue this trilogy (at least not right now).