This discovery would have been welcomed at another time but not now when his grief consumes him. He feels immediately drawn to a portrait of Charlotte that is on the bedroom wall.Īfter dinner, over a nightcap in front of the fireplace in Beth’s room, she declares her love for Mark. Mark thinks it is quaint and happily settles in. The room has been kept just as Charlotte left it. It belonged to her Great, Great-Aunt Charlotte who died in 1905. She has always known when he needed her.īeth gives Mark a room she doesn’t normally use for guests. Mark knows that Beth has brought him to ‘The Magnolias Boutique Hotel and Spa’ to help him recover from his grief, but he doesn’t mind. Despite hours spent at her bedside willing life into her, she slipped way from him and took his happiness and inspiration with her. He was pleased that at the end, he had been her rock. She was his friend, his rock, and his inspiration. She had been everything to him since his father had died years before. Mark had spent those years devoting himself to his art, when he wasn’t working in the art shop to help pay the bills. Beth had returned to her family home at Sutton Forest four years ago to help her mother turn their family home into a boutique hotel. He and Beth have been best mates since university days. Mark Hamilton accepts his friend’s offer to visit her in the New South Wales Highlands.

Love the Gift is a love story with a difference. Can a woman who has been dead for over one hundred years help Mark overcome the grief of his mother’s death and find the woman he’s always loved?

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