The best-selling author and her husband, Bruce Wilder, will welcome their first guests Tuesday to Inn BoonsBoro, nearly a year after an accidental fire destroyed all but the stone walls.

Nora Roberts, 73, is the author of more than 230 novels and is co-owner of Turn the Page Bookstore in Boonsboro, Md. Her latest book is “Inheritance” (St. Martin’s). She spoke with Marc Myers.