What the Mountains Remember

In "What the Mountains Remember," Joy Callaway tells the story of Belle Newbold, who returns to the mountains after seven years to reunite with her future fiancé and secure her future. However, when she is invited to tour the unfinished Grove Park Inn, she is thrust into a role researching and writing about the building of the inn, called The Eighth Wonder of the World. As Belle peels back the facade of Grove Park Inn, she begins to see that her part in its story is not a coincidence and that by watching a wonder rise from ordinary hands and mountain stone, she can find the strength to piece together the long-destroyed path toward who she was meant to be.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus

“Joy Callaway weaves a dramatic, heartfelt story of self-discovery and a hard-won love against the stunning backdrop the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World.’”

—Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Time is a River

At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on beauty.

April 1913 —Belle Newbold has not seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather's business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she's only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way. Belle is not interested in love. She only wants a simple life—a family of her own and the stability of a wealthy man's pockets. That's what Worth Delafield has promised to give her, and it's worth facing the mountains again, the reminder of the past, and her poverty, to secure her future.

But when the Vagabonds group is invited to tour the unfinished Grove Park Inn and Belle is unexpectedly thrust into a role researching and writing about the building of the inn—a construction the locals are calling The Eighth Wonder of the World—she quickly realizes that these mountains are no different from the ones she once called home. As Belle peels back the facade of Grove Park Inn, of Worth, of the society she's come to claim as her own, and the truth of her heart, she begins to see that perhaps her part in Grove Park's story is not a coincidence after all. Perhaps it is only by watching a wonder rise from ordinary hands.

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 212 x 139 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781400244317