Part of Chesapeake Shores, book 14
First published 2017
Keira Malone arrives in Chesapeake Shores, Maryland carrying the weight of recent loss. Her fiancé died of a heart attack, leaving her adrift after years of single motherhood following her first marriage's collapse. She relocates from Dublin to help her daughter Moira with newborn Kate and assist son-in-law Luke at his Irish pub, O'Briens. Keira rents a cottage on Lilac Lane with ocean views and a garden next door. Her neighbor Bryan Laramie cooks at the pub and bristles at every interaction with her. Their friction intensifies when Bryan's estranged daughter appears without warning after years of absence. Both Keira and Bryan must confront buried pain from their pasts while the town prepares for the Fall Festival Irish Stew competition. Residents pick sides as kitchen battles mirror deeper conflicts. The cook-off becomes a backdrop for two wounded people deciding whether they can risk opening their hearts again.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Chesapeake Shores, Dublin, Lilac Lane, Maryland, O'Briens
Period: contemporary
348 pages · Hardcover · MIRA