Chapter Nine
Grace
Days passed in a busy blur. Late winter when spring was on the horizon was a time of stunning beauty in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and tourists poured into the area. The restaurant at Stolen Hearts Lodge had truly found its stride within the last year or so. After Dani hired me, back when the place originally opened a few years ago, she had high hopes. With Jackson scrambling to resurrect his family’s old farm into a high-end outdoor resort and more, he’d desperately needed help when he hired her as manager.
In the last year since Shay had come along, things had kicked into high gear. Not only was Jackson in a much more cheerful mood—what with being head over heels in love with Shay—but Shay had taken over with managing the rescue program, the vet clinic, and the reser
