TY - SER KW - hospitality industry KW - adoption KW - high school yearbooks KW - resistance to real estate development KW - police KW - private investigators AU - Edie Claire AB - Meara O'Rourke—a Pittsburgh elementary school teacher on the eve of her 30th birthday—suddenly learns that her birth mother has died and left her half of a historic Western Pennsylvania country inn. On Laurel Ridge she meets the other part-owner, the moody and passionate Fletcher Black. Slowly sparks fly. C1 - 2000s C3 - Youghiogheny River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Cambria County; Fayette County; Uniontown; Connellsville; Stewart Twp.; Ohiopyle State Park; Somerset County; Somerset; Somerset County Courthouse; Confluence; Lower Turkeyfoot Twp.; Turkeyfoot Valley Area C4 - Romance; Mystery CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Edie Claire is a pseudonym of Edie V. Swihart (1965— ). N2 - Meara O'Rourke—a Pittsburgh elementary school teacher on the eve of her 30th birthday—suddenly learns that her birth mother has died and left her half of a historic Western Pennsylvania country inn. On Laurel Ridge she meets the other part-owner, the moody and passionate Fletcher Black. Slowly sparks fly. PB - Warner Books PP - New York PY - 2004 RN - Edie V. Swihart (1965— ), a licensed veterinarian, moved to Pittsburgh in 1991 and practiced in Avalon, Allegheny County. She lives in Pittsburgh's north suburbs. EP - 371 p. TI - Meant To Be ER -