Book Two · The Nightingale Inn
A Closed-Door Fake-Dating Romance on the Maine Coast
Wren Hartwell needs a fake boyfriend for one festival season. She never gets as far as asking — the harbor master has already said yes. Which should have been her first clue.
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For nine years Wren Hartwell has built flawless weddings for other people and kept one strict rule: never the bride. Not since the day she stood in white in front of the whole town and waited for a man who never came.
Now Julian Vance is back in Larkspur Cove, with his name on the festival banners and a fiancée on his arm. Wren has a solution. One fake relationship, carefully planned, over by Labor Day.
Leo Tran is the obvious choice — steady, quiet, impossible to rattle, and arguing with her since they were twelve. Leo agrees far too quickly, because Leo has a secret Wren never planned for. One summer, one storm-stranded island, one bed nobody planned to share, and a fake relationship becoming very difficult to keep fake.
Closed door: kisses on the page, everything else behind them. Each Nightingale Inn novel follows a new couple and can be read on its own. Lanterns, pie, and weather coming.
Leo never argues to win. He simply outlasts you.
He’s loved her for twenty-two years and three protested regattas. She thinks he’s just the safe option.
The opening
I have survived every disaster of my adult life by turning it into a seating chart.
A seating chart doesn’t care how anyone feels. It only needs the divorced Pelletiers at opposite ends of the tent and Uncle Ray nowhere near a live microphone. Hand me a catastrophe with a place card on it and I’ll hand it back fixed.
Which is why, at nine on a Tuesday morning in June, I was on my knees on the library floor with eighty-four paper circles laid out on the rug.
“You’ve moved the Pelletiers again,” said my grandmother.
Eleanor was in the doorway with her coffee, doing the thing she does where she has clearly been standing there some while and lets you find out about it later.
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Where it starts
Book One
A Closed-Door Small-Town Romance on the Maine Coast
June Calloway arrives in Larkspur Cove to bake for the summer. Eleanor Hartwell forgot to mention it to her grandson, who runs the inn, keeps the schedule, and did not put a pastry chef on it. Then a renovation turns up a ledger hidden in the wall, and the summer stops being about the pie.
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