Homeward Light: A Sweet Later-in-Life Beach Romance (Carrabelle Book 2)

Forty years ago he kissed her on the fuel dock and never said another word about it. She has been pouring his coffee every morning since, and never once let on she was waiting for him to.At fifty-eight, Sudie Marchant runs the Tin Cup coffee-and-pie window on the corner of the Carrabelle fish house, four-forty every morning, feeding a whole dock of oyster captains and charging nothing to any man who fished that day. She is a widow with a grown daughter who wants her to move up the coast and quit working. And she has spent forty years handing Cap Buell Rountree his black coffee across the sill and never saying the thing that has been between them since a night on the fuel dock in 1985.Buell is the man the whole river leans on: first boat out, last one in, the one who lights the ice-house lamp before dawn so no captain ever comes home to a dark dock. He is also carrying a secret that is about to take his boat and his house. When a developer buys up the co-op's debt to force a gated marina onto the working waterfront, the lever turns out to be a note Buell signed his own name to years ago, alone, to keep the ice coming for everybody. And the one thing Sudie cannot abide, after burying a husband who did the very same, is a man who would rather drown holding a thing than let one person hold the other end of it.Homeward Light is a sweet, clean, slow-burn second-chance romance about the love you waste forty years being too scared to claim, and what it takes to finally, bravely, out loud, claim it. Full of salt air, a working fish house worth fighting for, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Welcome back to Carrabelle, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.