Book One · The Nightingale Inn
A Closed-Door Small-Town Romance on the Maine Coast
One grumpy innkeeper. One sunshine pastry chef. And a foggy little Maine town that absolutely refuses to mind its own business.
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June Calloway has quit the job, sublet the apartment and driven four hundred miles north to be the new pastry chef at the Nightingale Inn. She is ready for early mornings and salt air. She is not ready for the man in her kitchen doorway, scowling at her as though she is the one who does not belong.
Graham Hartwell gave up everything to keep his family’s inn standing. He did not hire a pastry chef, he cannot afford one, and he has no idea what to do with a woman who fixes his temperamental oven in ten minutes flat and smiles at him like the whole day is hers.
Then the boiler dies, June ends up on the family floor, and a kitchen wall comes down to reveal something behind the plaster that nobody in the family can account for.
Closed door: kisses on the page, everything else behind them. A standalone with a happy ending — Book One of the Nightingale Inn, and it finishes its own love story.
“Fine. Good.” is hereby established as the official unit of praise. Exchange rate: one (1) Fine-Good equals one (1) sonnet.
At the Nightingale Inn, some walls hide secrets — and some hearts are stronger than they look.
The opening
The ferry to Larkspur Cove ran twice a day, except when it didn’t, which according to the schedule taped to the ticket window was “weather, mood, or Tuesdays.”
It was a Tuesday. The ferry ran anyway.
I decided that was a sign, because the alternative was admitting I had quit my job, sublet my apartment, and driven four hundred miles north on the strength of one phone call from a woman I had never met.
The call had lasted ninety seconds.
“You’ll be the pastry chef,” she’d said, in a voice like good sherry. “Eleanor Hartwell, Nightingale Inn. I had your strawberry basil galette at the Camden wedding in April and I have thought about it since. Wedding season starts the second week of June. Shall we say the first?”
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Next in the series
Book Two
A Closed-Door Fake-Dating Romance on the Maine Coast
Wren Hartwell plans weddings for other people and has never once been the bride. When the festival lands its first headline sponsor and it turns out to be the man who left her at the altar, she needs a boyfriend by Thursday. Leo Tran says yes before she finishes asking, which should have told her something.
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