Tides, Tension & Two-Lane Truths: A Romantic Comedy (A Matchmaker Moms Romance #70)

Dalton Douglas


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Cormac Tolland knows how to keep seafood cold, customers fed, and Mick McCarthy’s weekly pop-up from turning into a public safety event. Mostly. What he does not know how to handle is Joseph Hartwell—a state health inspector with a clipboard, a conscience, and absolutely no interest in being charmed into cutting corners.

Joseph arrives in Dalton after a complaint and finds a kitchen that is beloved, slightly chaotic, and one bad decision away from a shutdown. Cormac is competent, stubborn, and far more careful than the complaint suggests. Joseph is fair, disciplined, and tired of being treated like the villain for doing his job right. Their first meeting is tense. Their second is worse. Their third involves corrective action plans, suspicious sponges, and the deeply inconvenient realization that mutual respect might be dangerously close to chemistry.

As seafood night becomes the center of a growing complaint war, Cormac and Joseph are pulled into late-night fixes, public scrutiny, and a town that has a strong opinion about everybody’s business. Cormac thinks Joseph is judging Dalton. Joseph thinks Cormac wants exceptions. Both of them are wrong. And both of them are in serious trouble.

Because it turns out there’s nothing more intimate than competence, nothing more threatening than integrity, and nothing more romantic than someone who chooses to stay.

Tides, Tension & Two-Lane Truths is a warm, funny small-town M/M romantic comedy full of sharp banter, quiet longing, workplace tension, found belonging, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
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