Room for Always: Room for Magic, Book 5

By Annika Stone

Forty-three years ago, the inn misplaced a dance card. It never closed the account.

Greta Lund has spent a lifetime filing her feelings where they can't get loose - forty years of classrooms, nine countries, one good marriage, and now a quiet widowhood and a house in Lansing with a For Sale sign she keeps meaning to mean. She's come back to Green Arbor to settle things. Not to start them.

Bernie Hollister has other ideas, the way he always did.

The retired sea captain - the town's favorite bachelor at seventy, a widower who says he loves through doing, not telling - knew Greta for one summer in 1983. One dance they never had. Then life carried them to opposite ends of the earth, and the Starlight Arbor Inn tucked their unfinished story away and simply... waited.

Now the lilacs are breaking open three weeks early. The old sand-globe in the lobby is showing a memory to anyone who'll look. And when Bernie's heart falters on a ladder full of festival lights, Greta discovers that the thing she filed away longest ago is the one that won't stay filed.

Some second chances take a season. This one took a lifetime - and there was never as much time as they thought.

A closed-door, later-in-life romance with a touch of magic - for readers who love second-chance and reunited love - older leads who've truly lived - widow-and-widower tenderness - dual timelines - small towns, lilac festivals, and a hopeful happy ending it's never too late to reach.

Room for Always is Book 5 of the Room for Magic series, and stands entirely on its own. Free in Kindle Unlimited.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG7XKM9Y
• ISBN13: 9798900679365
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Wondrous Publishing
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"