The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts (2012)

The second in the Inn Boonsboro trilogy was somehow one of the slowest moving Roberts' books. No surprise that Avery, one of the three women friends, who runs the Pizza joint across from the old inn that is being restored gets together with Owen, who is restoring the inn with his brothers. Maybe one needs a nice calm story every once in a while. The ghost in the inn pushes these two old friends together, and makes them realize they have been best friends forever and could take their relationship to a romantic level. There had to be some incident, some tragedy, some secret that would solidify the relationship or help them get over the last hurdle when they realize they really belong together. So Avery's mother, who had deserted her when she was little, comes back into the picture to fill this role.

I continued to enjoy the restoration process, but it sounded like a lot of money sunk into something that was going to take a lot of time to return the investment and pay a decent salary to Hope, the manager of the inn and the next one to fall in love with the third brother in this trilogy.