Salt and Honey: A Small-Town Second Chance Romance (Marigold Bay Book 1)

She came home to bury her grandmother. She inherited half a bakery — and the other half belongs to the man she walked away from.

Seven years ago, June Vance left Marigold Bay at twenty with a place in a Boston kitchen, a stolen sheet pan, and a boy who told her flatly that he wouldn't follow her anywhere.

Now she's twenty-seven and back, with a career that collapsed in July and a phone that was shut off when the call came. The grandmother who raised her is gone. All Nan left behind is the Bittersweet Bakery — half to June, half to Callum Whitlock. Sixty days to agree on its future, or they both lose it.

Cal never left. He's still infuriating, still built like the wooden boats he rebuilds, still saying nothing at all when it matters most. He carried her grandmother up the stairs every night for two years. And in seven years he has never once explained why he let June go.

Sixty days in a kitchen four feet wide. Four in the morning, every morning. A failing roof, a developer with an open offer, and a Maine town watching every move they make.

June has a way out. She's always had a way out.

But the leaves are turning over Marigold Bay, the ovens are lit again, and there are some things worth staying for.

Salt and Honey is a steamy, open-door small-town second chance romance featuring a grumpy boat-builder, a sunshine baker, forced proximity, one narrow kitchen, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book one in the Marigold Bay series.