Readers of Nora Roberts will probably know she has written close to 200 novels, many of them trilogies and quartets. The Next Always is the first in a trilogy: each in turn focuses on the love life of one the three Montgomery brothers.
First up is Beckett, who has always fancied Clare Brewster, who is back in town running a bookshop.
There are complications, in that Clare is the widow of a soldier and has three young sons. A cookie-cutter romance but pleasant enough.
The background is the town of Boonsboro, Maryland, where the Montgomery family is turning a near-derelict building into a boutique hotel.
The town really exists and so does Inn Boonsboro, owned by Roberts and exactly as described in the book. As a marketing ploy that is hard to beat, for one imagines numerous readers happy to pay $US350 ($NZ460) a night to stay there.
• Gillian Vine is a Dunedin writer.
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