The Winter Crossing: a Sweet Small Town Coastal Romance — Clean Island Novel, & Widow Single Mom Second Chance on Maine Ferry (The Inn at Gull Harbor Book 3)

The winter ferry to Little Mott Island stops on the first of March - unless the state gets a second licensed operator's name on a one-page form. Joris Vidler has asked everybody he can think of. Everybody has said no. Linnea Wyeth moved to the island for the rent: six hundred a month, a woodstove she keeps going herself, and a jar over the stove with the whole margin in it. Every school morning she crosses with her son, who is nine, and says the minutes out loud - the same numbers every time, because counting is the only part of it that is his. If the boat stops, the island children go to the mainland for eleven weeks, and so does the only life she has managed to build since she lost her husband. There is nobody on that island with a ticket. That is what she tells Joris, and it is true, and it is not what he asked. Because in a box in the attic cupboard, under the papers from the funeral home, there is a master's license with her own name on it - paid for in installments by a man who wanted her never to be at anybody's mercy. Joris does not want a partner, only a name on a form. Linnea has not taken a helm since the April before her husband died. One of them is going to have to say yes to something much bigger than a form. A clean, closed-door small town coastal romance about a widow, a ferryman, a boy who counts everything, and one hard Maine winter on the water. Island community, courage and a happy ending. Book 3 of The Inn at Gull Harbor. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.