Amelia Joy

Stay ninety days, the letter said. Nora drives nine hours to a coastal Maine town she's never seen — and finds a half-wrecked cottage and the man she walked away from twelve years ago, waiting in the yard.

Josie arrives with a 9-year-old, a left arm that won't stop shaking, and a gutted waterfront cafe. She doesn't need help — least of all the lobsterman next door with coffee and bad jokes at 5:45 every morning.

She ran. He stayed. Fifteen years later, forgiveness is the only thing Claire can't earn — and Liam builds wooden boats by hand, with sawdust in his eyebrows and grey-green eyes that take their time finding you.