First Light

For five years, Connie Alvarez has fed the whole beach from a little coffee window and never once sat down to a real meal of her own. For seven years, Tully Granger has run his turtle boat out of the same old dock and never repainted his late wife's name off the back of it. Every morning at first light he brings his dented thermos to her window, and every morning she saves him the last guava pastry, and in five years neither one of them has said the thing the whole beach has quietly been betting on.

Then a developer comes for Driftwood Landing.

Sandhill Coast Partners wants the public boat ramp, the working charter slips, the sea-turtle nest-watch shack, and Connie's little Saltbox window, all of it, bulldozed for a gated marina-and-spa. To save the dock that has held both their lives together, a stubborn widow who has forgotten how to ask for help and a quiet widower who has forgotten how to want anything have to learn to lean on each other. Through a long turtle-nesting summer of dawn patrols and pre-launch coffee crowds, a threatened nest and a town that will not go quietly, Connie starts cooking again and Tully starts living again, and the brightest part of both their lives turns out to be the one still coming up over the water.

A sweet, clean, slow-burn second-chance romance with no spice and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Welcome back to Cocoa Beach, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.