The Salmon Bargain: a cozy, small-town romantasy featuring soft LitRPG elements and relaxing fishing adventure (Book 2)

Summer came to Willowreach, and so did the numbers Nora Calder cannot fix with a list. The coho run is failing, the river is too warm and too thin, and the county is ready to close water the town has fished for four generations. Acting steward of Calder Landing, Nora has one season to broker a bargain between the families who need the fish and the river that needs them. Her answer is a forgotten side channel - Maeve's Gut, silted shut, fixable if enough hands show up. That means convincing a grieving fisherman, a wary county water manager, and the town itself. It also means asking the man she loves to hold a line: Eli Harlan enforces the closures, and this summer the badge will cost them both. When the town's anger lands on her as "his girl," Nora has to learn the hardest thing the river teaches - that you cannot save it alone, and you cannot love a warden into choosing.