Sand Dollar

She came to New Smyrna Beach done needing anybody. He'd kept a coffee cup on the counter for six years, just in case.

At fifty-four, Maeve Sullivan has a finished divorce, a little beach condo, and one hard rule: never need a man again, because the last time cost her twenty-six years and her whole self. She came south for two weeks and quietly never left. She did not plan on Sully Brennan, the gruff, widowed bait-shop man two docks over, who can't say a soft word to save his life and fixes things instead.

When a developer from Tampa moves to gate the public boat ramp Sully's family gave the town ninety years ago, Maeve takes up the fight, for the working waterfront, she tells everyone, not for the man. But a hurricane is turning toward the coast, and when it traps the two of them on the wrong side of the bridge with nothing to do but talk, two people who'd each decided they were finished are going to find out the sea isn't done handing this town its glass back.

A sweet, clean, slow-burn later-in-life romance with no spice and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Return to New Smyrna Beach, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.