The Next Always / Nora Roberts / 341 pages

This is book one on the Inn Boonsboro trilogy.  New York Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, who has written 190 books under her own name and 34 under the name J. D. Robb, has once again written a captivating read.  Set in the author's own bed and breakfast, we are introduced to the Montgomery brothers - Beckett, Ryder, and Owen - and their mother.  The Montgomery's are rehabbing an historic old inn and bringing it back to its former glory.  Is the inn haunted?  What else could explain the humming, the scent of honeysuckle, and lights mysteriously being the turned off?  Beckett loves his office as it gives him a great view of Main Street including the book store owned by Claire Brewster.  Beckett has wanted to kiss Claire since he was 16 years old.  Will he finally get the chance?