title: Valentine's Inn
author: Grover, Chris
description: Rianna Gordon can't decide if she should sell Valentine's Inn-a 19th-century structure built by her great-great-grandfather-to a developer or if she should figure out a way to keep it. While she's trying to make up her mind, an older man shows up carrying a stray kitten he just found and introduces himself as Josh Byford. The kitten is wet and cold, and Rianna and Josh spend time drying him off and making sure he's okay. While doing this, Rianna lists all the reasons she should sell the inn, but Josh keeps coming up with arguments to talk her out of it. Eventually, Rianna agrees to at least research the costs of keeping the inn. In the process, she's introduced to Alan, an attractive and intriguing man who owns a winery, looks a bit like Josh, and is interested in investing in the inn for the purpose of showcasing and selling his wines. Excited, Rianna rushes back to the inn and tells Josh the good news, who seems happy for her. But sometime later, when Alan visits, Josh and the kitten mysterious disappear. Even stranger, the boxes Rianna made up for the kitty-one with kitty litter and the other for his bed-have also vanished, seemingly into thin air. What would explain the abrupt disppearance of both man and kitten? And considering the resemblance between Josh and Alan, could there be a connection between the men of which Rianna is unaware?NOTE: This story was previously published in an anthology entitled Enchanted Holidays with the ISBN: 978-1-41990-807-1. This reissued version of the story has been revised and reedited.