Cottage on Seabreeze Lane: A sweet later-in-life second chance romance

Maggie Rowe came back to Seabreeze to sell the dune-side cottage she grew up in and leave town before anyone could ask questions.

At fifty-six, she is newly retired from event planning and tired of being the person who fixes everything. Then the town council corners her about the boardwalk summer festival. The shops need it, the pier needs it, and the volunteers are a mess. Maggie agrees, as long as she keeps her distance from Tom Harlan.

Tom, fifty-eight, is the steady one who never left. He is also the volunteer coordinator, which means Maggie is stuck with him every day, measuring booth space, hanging lights, and arguing over the schedule like they never broke up.

One small touch turns into something neither of them can ignore.

With the festival closing in, Maggie has to decide what she is really the cottage, or the life she could still build in this beach town with the man she once walked away from. A sweet, closed door romance with a happy ending.