The Sixty-Day Summer

Wren Hale has sixty days to decide whether to sell her dead great-aunt's bookshop - or lose everything trying to save it.When a phone call from a stranger's lawyer upends her carefully built New York life, Wren inherits more than a crumbling bookstore in a Maine harbor town: she inherits a list. Ten things her great-aunt never finished. A festival she's legally required to run. And a devastatingly stubborn surf shop owner next door who's already decided she's exactly the kind of person who'll sell out and leave, just like the last company that gutted this town.Eli Bowen watched a developer take his family's boatyard once. He's not about to watch it happen again - even if the woman standing in the way keeps making it harder to stay angry at her.As the sixty days tick down, Wren finds herself falling for a town she never meant to stay in, a list she didn't know was already half her own history, and a man who might be the very last item she checks off. But an old family secret, a determined developer, and a shop's worth of back taxes standbetween her and the life she's starting to want.Two neighbors. One summer. Sixty days to follow the rules - or break every single one.Book One of the Inkwell Bay series.