Saltwater Cove

Saltwater Cove opens Amelia Addler's Westcott Bay series on San Juan Island, off the coast of Washington State. Margie Clifton is forty-eight, freshly divorced, and out of ideas when her brother gifts her a waterfront property. She takes it as a chance to build a business, make a second home for her grown children, and put a bitter marriage behind her.

Hank Kowalski is not looking for anyone. Two years after losing his wife, and with a daughter who is not ready to see him move on, he still finds himself drawn to Margie's steadiness. What neither of them has accounted for is the secret Margie carries from her old life, and what it could cost the new one.

The book is small-town women's fiction with a mature second-chance romance at its center: island setting, family entanglements, no explicit content, and a hopeful ending.