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About Melanie Moreland
New York Times/USA Today bestselling author Melanie Moreland lives a happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of thirty plus years and their rescue cat, Amber. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family, and she cherishes every moment spent with them.
While seriously addicted to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to sample. She loves to throw dinner parties, and enjoys traveling, here and abroad, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip.
Melanie loves stories, especially paired with a good wine, and enjoys skydiving (free falling over a fleck of dust) extreme snowboarding (falling down stairs) and piloting her own helicopter (tripping over her own feet). She's learned happily ever afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.
The Inheritance
A Port Henry Novella
Amy Briggs
1
Donovan
Spring was coming to an end in Port Henry, an affluent seaside town roughly two hours northeast of New York City, and with the change of seasons, a transition in the ambiance of the community. As summer approached, the quiet of the square would shift to a bustling tourist trap and the locals who resided there year-round would either saddle up for an overtly profitable spell through fall, or they’d hide out and grumble as the weekenders and seasonal residents descended from the city.
Donovan Hunter was a local, but he wasn’t one of the natives who purchased an opulent home, established residency, and invited celebrities and socialites to parties all season, nor did he inherit a big home from a wealthy family. The old money was an entirely different breed altogether, and they had a firm policy of not letting the new money take over wherever possible.
While he had spent his entire life in the Port, Donovan was neither old nor new money. In fact, he’d grown up with very little. The only son of a single mother, Donovan spent his formidable years attending the one and only public school in the area while his mother cleaned the houses of both the long-standing residents as well as some of the more contemporary, newer folks. The subset of the working class on the shorefront was largely a group that didn’t stay long and, with the exception of a handful of his classmates, Donovan couldn’t wait to leave for college as well.
But, as often happens with the sons of hard-working mothers, Donovan found himself back in Port Henry after graduating, working the summers at odd jobs and serving at high-end restaurants to put himself through veterinary school. Besides his mother, Maggie, their pets had been the only other reason he came back. By the time he graduated from veterinary school, he’d established himself as a small-town celebrity of sorts among the working class.
Opening his own practice had always been a d