Finding a soul mate was never on Ellen’s to-do list. Now there are two, and she has no intention of keeping either.
“You’ve given every good thing you have to a property that will never love you back.”
Ellen Van Doren has run the Birch Point Inn for twenty years. She does it on strong coffee, sharp comebacks, and one firm rule: She needs no one. The inn is hers. The marina is hers. At forty-six, she has the whole thing handled, thank you very much.
That same summer, trouble finds her beach town property. Quiet legal pressures begin to gather, and everything four generations of Van Dorens built, a family legacy carved into the Maine coast, is suddenly at stake.
Then two men turn up on the same stretch of coast. Neither one can take a hint.
The first arrives by truck. He is quiet and maddening. He keeps fixing things she never asked him to fix. Then he waits. The kindest, most patient bully she ever met. The second arrives by boat. He is tall, golden, and far too sure of himself. He calls her exquisite and means every infuriating word.
Ellen has no time for either of them. She has an inn to keep. She has a summer season to survive. And she has an enemy she hasn't spotted yet: someone moving quietly, twisting the law itself to pry loose what four generations built.
She built her walls to keep the world out. Nobody warned her they would keep her in, too.
The Heart of Birch Point is a clean, low-heat, later-in-life romance, slow-burn, second-chance, love triangle, with a found family and happy ending worth the wait. No cliffhangers. Set against the salt air and sharp wit of coastal Maine, Ellen is a woman who’d quietly closed the door on love. Two very different men keep knocking anyway. A family legacy worth fighting for. A perfect fit for readers who love Amy Rafferty and Grace Meyers.
A complete story with a satisfying ending. If you love midlife romance with independent heroines.
