Salt & Second Chances

He came to inspect it. Neither of them planned on falling in love all over again.Pastry chef Nora Bell has nothing left in Chicago: no kitchen, no plan, and no idea who she is without either. When her grandmother's will leaves her the family bakery on Water Street, the only sensible thing to do is sell it, sign the papers, and go. Ten days until closing. One last box of her grandmother's recipe cards. No room in the plan for anything - or anyone - else.Then the building inspector walks through the door, and it's Eli Navarro. The boy she loved at nineteen. The boy she left standing at the end of a pier.Eli has spent ten years running the family boatyard, keeping a promise to a father who needed him, and trying not to think about the girl who got on a bus and never looked back. He tells himself he's over it. He is extremely bad at telling himself the truth.Now Nora is back for ten days, her grandmother's recipe box is issuing daily instructions from beyond the grave, and the whole town has decided this is the most interesting thing to happen to Water Street since the pie contest of 2014. Ten recipes. One stubborn iron oven nobody can talk her out of loving. One persistent, hinge-fixing, entirely-too-handsome inspector who swears, and keeps swearing, that he will never ask her to stay.He doesn't have to ask. That's the whole problem.As the days tick down and the bakery fills with the smell of brown butter and cardamom, Nora has to decide what she actually wants - not what's sensible, not what's safe, but what's true. And Eli has to decide whether loving someone means holding on, or finally learning how to let go of the fear that kept him standing still.Some love stories don't end. They just wait for the oven to warm up.Salt & Second Chances is a sweet, small-town, second-chance romance with a slow-burn reunion, a swoony grand gesture, a hopeful happily-ever-after, and absolutely no cliffhanger. If you love:Childhood-sweethearts-reunited storiesSmall coastal towns full of nosy, big-hearted neighborsA heroine finding her way back to herselfA steady, patient hero who's been waiting for her all alongFood-forward romance with real recipes worth bakingClean and wholesome romance with a closed-door happily-ever-after...then pull up a stool at the counter of Bell & Salt. The kettle's on, the oven's warm, and there's always room for one more.Saltmarsh Harbor is the kind of town where everyone knows your name, your business, and exactly how you take your coffee - whether you want them to or not. Come for the lighthouse and the lobster boats. Stay for the bakery that never quite stopped waiting for its baker to come home.Book One in the Saltmarsh Harbor Series - a collection of sweet, standalone romances set in one very stubborn, very lovable Maine harbor town. Each book follows a new couple, with a happily-ever-after guaranteed and old friends dropping by to say hello.