Crescent Light: A Sweet Later-in-Life Beach Romance (Siesta Key Book 1)

She came to Siesta Key to scatter her husband's ashes and say goodbye. She did not plan on a reason to stay.At fifty-four, Cora Bellamy has a quiet Indiana house, a grown daughter who worries too much, and one promise left to keep: bring her late husband home to the white-sand beach where they honeymooned thirty years ago. She books a month in a faded little cottage on Siesta Key, plans to do the hard thing off Point of Rocks, and go back to her careful, half-empty life.Then she meets Sam Rourke, the gruff, divorced boat-shop man who fixes everything except the door he closed on love a long time ago. And she wanders into the Sandpiper Reading Room, the little donated-book cottage library her husband loved by mail for thirty years, only to find it falling apart with a slick developer circling the lease.A retired librarian cannot walk away from a dying library. So Cora stays past her month, and she and Sam start rebuilding the place board by board - two people who thought their best years were behind them, learning that the sweetest season might be the one still coming. But a beach club wants the whole parcel, her daughter wants her home, and Sam has sworn he will never risk his heart again.A sweet, clean, slow-burn second-chance romance with no spice and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Welcome to Siesta Key, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.