Sweet, later-in-life romance on the Maine coast
Sweet, closed-door, later-in-life romance set in Bellwether Cove, a small harbor town on the Maine coast where it is never too late to start again.
- Grown-up heroines and heroes in their fifties and sixties
- Clean and closed-door: the bedroom door stays shut
- Each book a complete standalone with a happily ever after
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Love at Harbor's End
She came to settle an estate. He came to lock a door. Neither of them planned to stay. A retired paramedic, a lighthouse, and the careful man who padlocked its door.
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The Harbor's End Romances
Each book follows a new couple in Bellwether Cove. Read them in any order; in order, you'll watch the town come together.
Book 1 · Available now
Love at Harbor's End
She came to settle an estate. He came to lock a door. Neither of them planned to stay.
Book 2 · Out October 15
Christmas at Harbor's End
The woman who feeds the whole town, and the Christmas tree man finally ready to say something.
Book 3 · Out November 1
Coming Home to Harbor's End
First love, forty-two years of silence, and a shoebox of letters he never mailed.
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