Roberts, Nora. The Next Always (Inn Boonsboro Trilogy, #1). Berkley, 2011. ISBN 978-0425243213 341 pp $16

***

Reliable Nora Roberts. Well-written, sweet, sexy but not too, this volume begins the story of a match-making ghost who gently manipulates three local brothers into making a go with their perfect matches while she waits to be reunited with her own.

Widowed bookstore owner Clare falls hard for her army husband’s high school classmate and football teammate Beckett, a grown up carpenter who might be just the one to take on and her three ruffian boys.