The Devil Stays in Town: Book Four of The Millbrook Falls Series
Claire Ashford
Everyone in Millbrook Falls thought they knew who the villain was. They were wrong.
When journalist Cora Banks arrives in Millbrook Falls to investigate the development company that nearly destroyed the Calloway Inn, she expects to find a straightforward story. Shell company, small town, greed. She's written that story before. She knows how it ends.
What she finds instead is Reid Calloway.
Reid has been the villain of this story for eight months — the estranged Calloway son, the mysterious shell company owner, the man nobody in town could quite account for. He came back to Millbrook Falls in November with a folder of documents, a lot of explaining to do, and absolutely no expectation that the journalist pulling the thread would be the most precise, most patient, most unexpectedly compelling person he'd encountered in years.
He didn't set out to threaten the inn. He set out to save it.
The truth is more complicated than the story. It always is.
Cora has spent six years reporting accurately on complicated men and she knows the difference between a man hiding something and a man who doesn't know how to explain something. Reid Calloway is the second kind. The second kind is considerably more dangerous.
She came to Millbrook Falls to close a story. The story keeps opening.
The Devil Stays in Town is a slow-burn sweet romance about a journalist who follows every thread to its source, an architect who builds things for the people who come after, and the specific danger of spending six weeks in the same room as someone who turns out to be nothing like you expected.
No explicit content — sharp wit, slow tension, and a villain reveal that isn't one.
The Millbrook Falls Series — Book Four. She came to find the devil. She found something considerably harder to walk away from.
