She came to fix the harbor. He'd spent fifteen years making sure it didn't need fixing.
Tourism consultant Peyton Tremont arrives in Cliffhaven, Maine, with a sixty-slide PowerPoint and a plan to transform the waterfront. Marina owner Grant Carpenter has a plan too. It’s scribbled on a napkin in three sentences.
When they discover they're bidding on the same historic building—her for a flashy tourist center, him to protect the local boatyard—the competition is on. But somewhere between her nine hundred photographs and his three-word solutions, rivalry starts looking a lot like partnership.
With a meddling scone baker, a lobsterman who speaks in weather reports, and a barista whose silence says everything, the town of Cliffhaven has loud opinions about these two. Now Peyton has to choose: the career she spent twelve years building, or the harbor that rebuilt her.