The Tide Comes Back: a Later-in-Life Romance of Second Chances in Small Maine Harbor Town

Maggie came back to Sandpiper Bay to fix up her mother's cottage, sell it, and leave for good. She did not plan on falling for the widower next door.At fifty-six, Maggie Doyle has already survived one long marriage and the divorce that ended it, and she has exactly one plan left: patch the roof, clear out thirty years of her late mother's things, and get her childhood cottage on the market before autumn. Ninety days, in and out, no attachments. What she hasn't accounted for is Frank Ellison, the neighbor who fixes her fence without asking, notices the rot in her gutter before she does, and has spent two quiet years rebuilding his own life around a boat he can't bring himself to sell since his wife died.Neither of them is looking for this. Frank has spent two years being handled gently by everyone who loves him, and Maggie has spent thirty-one years being managed by someone who never really saw her. What grows between them over one Maine summer is neither gentle nor managed, and it has no interest in staying on schedule.The cottage is still for sale. The moving boxes are still half packed. But the tide in Sandpiper Bay has a way of bringing back exactly what you were sure you'd already lost, and Maggie is starting to wonder whether ninety days was ever really the plan.The Tide Comes Back is Book One in Second Acts of Sandpiper Bay, a series of later-in-life romances about the people who thought their story was already finished.Perfect for readers who love small-town charm, grown-up love stories, and proof that the best chapters don't always come first.