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It’s Mary especially – between innkeepers Roger and Mary Wolters – whose artistic sensibilities and penchant for romance make for a place with rose petals on the bed, a gauzy cover around it and welcome notes on parchment.

Three families who choose from among the resort’s 200 cabins, cottages and villas share a fondness that results in repeat trips to the Smokies-area property.

Eight miles out of Asheville, families and couples find a dreamy retreat where the host couple “went overboard on the sheets.”