The Master Plan (Lesbian Romance Coastal Oregon Small Town Second Chance #3)

Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.

Nora Vance is the forty-nine-year-old CEO who owns Crescent Bay Resort—the distant corporate overlord who's been threatening to sell the beloved property since day one. She's a data-driven workaholic who views the struggling resort as a red line on a spreadsheet. When a massive winter storm damages the historic wing, she's forced to fly out from Manhattan to oversee the crisis personally.

Waiting for her is Ellis O'Connell, the resort's forty-eight-year-old master carpenter—rugged, capable, deeply rooted in the land. Ellis also happens to be the woman Nora had a secret whirlwind summer romance with twenty-five years ago, before Nora chose her inheritance and corporate future over her heart.

This is a high-stakes second chance romance. Ellis is the only contractor who can properly restore the historic building, but she refuses to work for Nora unless Nora commits to a faithful restoration—not a cheap patch-job to make the property sellable. The winter storm traps them both at the resort, stripping away Nora's corporate armor and forcing her into the physical world Ellis has built her life around.

The emotional conflict is the ghost of their past: Ellis has never forgiven Nora for choosing money over love, and Nora is terrified to confront the possibility that she made the wrong choice half a lifetime ago. As they work side-by-side to save the building, old feelings resurface alongside old wounds.

Nora must face the fact that her wealth and success have left her spiritually hollow. She doesn't just decide to keep the resort—she decides to move her life there, finally building a home on the foundation Ellis provides.

A grumpy/grumpy enemies-to-lovers reunion romance about confronting the life you didn't live, choosing love over legacy, and discovering that it's never too late to build the home you were always meant to have.