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The Second Season
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She spent twenty-six years granting other people's wishes. Then a dying stranger granted hers.
Grace Delaney is the best concierge in New York - the woman who finds violinists at midnight and rooms that don't exist. When the grand Hotel Marchand closes forever, Grace, fifty-two and widowed, is left with a severance check, an empty apartment, and no idea who she is without a desk to stand behind.
Then a letter arrives from Portugal. You will not remember me, but you once found a violinist for my wife.
Arthur Bellamy, eighty years old and dying, has one final request: help him reopen the Hotel Palácio da Maré - the shuttered palace on the Atlantic cliffs of Cascais that his family kept for a century - for one last season. One year. Done properly, or not at all.
What Grace finds on that headland is a house full of ghosts and loyalists: a waiter who has served tea at four o'clock for sixty years, a widowed chef who courts her one vegetable crate at a time, a town that never stopped setting a place for the hotel that raised it - and a predatory resort group circling with a debt that comes due on New Year's Eve.
To save the Palácio, Grace will need every favor she ever banked, every guest she ever treated as a beloved, and the one skill no spreadsheet can price: knowing what people need before they ask.
She came for one season. She stayed for the rest of her life.
For readers of Danielle Steel, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Susan Mallery - a sweeping, tender novel about grief, grand hotels, found family, and the love that arrives when the tomatoes are ready.
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