{"product_id":"the-second-season-jessica-wynter-9798185300367","title":"The Second Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe spent twenty-six years granting other people's wishes. Then a dying stranger granted hers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Delaney is the best concierge in New York - the woman who finds violinists at midnight and rooms that don't exist. When the grand Hotel Marchand closes forever, Grace, fifty-two and widowed, is left with a severance check, an empty apartment, and no idea who she is without a desk to stand behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a letter arrives from Portugal. \u003ci\u003eYou will not remember me, but you once found a violinist for my wife.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Bellamy, eighty years old and dying, has one final request: help him reopen the Hotel Palácio da Maré - the shuttered palace on the Atlantic cliffs of Cascais that his family kept for a century - for one last season. One year. Done properly, or not at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Grace finds on that headland is a house full of ghosts and loyalists: a waiter who has served tea at four o'clock for sixty years, a widowed chef who courts her one vegetable crate at a time, a town that never stopped setting a place for the hotel that raised it - and a predatory resort group circling with a debt that comes due on New Year's Eve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save the Palácio, Grace will need every favor she ever banked, every guest she ever treated as a beloved, and the one skill no spreadsheet can price: knowing what people need before they ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe came for one season. She stayed for the rest of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Danielle Steel, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Susan Mallery - a sweeping, tender novel about grief, grand hotels, found family, and the love that arrives when the tomatoes are ready.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Wynter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185300367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Jessica Wynter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084318679295,"sku":"9798185300367","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-second-season-jessica-wynter-9798185300367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}