for sending us What The Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway! I absolutely loved this story and after finishing it, immediately started looking up The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC to plan a trip!
In 1913 Belle Newbold accompanies her mother, step father and many other wealthy families on a “camping” trip to Ashville, NC where the 8th Wonder of the World is being built, The Grove Park Inn. Belle is also to re-meet her intended fiancé on the trip and to make their engagement official.
As she explores the surrounding forest and mountains she is reminded of her childhood, a childhood that she is forbidden to bring up. Secrets that risk exposure and being “put out” is Belle and her mother’s greatest fear. However, as she is getting to know her intended fiancé she feels like she cannot keep secrets from him, and he her. They both have secrets from their past and are haunted by them and those secrets could destroy their future together.
This is such a sweet love story wrapped up in extraordinary history. I have never been to North Carolina but I now feel the need to see the mountains just as they are described in this story!
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