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I got this arc a few months ago (some of you cleverly spotted it in one of my recent reels 🙂) and have been reading a few pages before bed most nights. Its tone is gorgeous and I’m very invested in the dachsunds and the hotel of course! I relate to a lot of the experiences of being in the service industry.

Book Info
Title: The Listeners
Author: Maggie Stiefvater | @maggie_stiefvater
Publisher: Viking Books | @vikingbooks
Release Date: June 3rd 2025
Synopsis:
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.

Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo hints at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats’ secrets. He has one of his own, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act can have dangerous consequences: the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal.

June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.