Coharie Beach Cafe

She's lost everything, including her house and her husband. When a stranger leaves her a beach café in North Carolina, she grasps the chance for a new beginning.

When a stranger leaves forty-five-year-old Caitlin Walsh a beachside café in North Carolina, she grasps it as a lifeline to escape her shattered life. Packing up her things, she convinces her best friend to join her on a coastal road trip toward a fresh start. But inheriting a business is a mystery in itself. Caitlin doesn't know the first thing about cooking, and some of the locals seem resentful of her sudden arrival.

The problem deepens when she meets her unneighborly neighbor. The angry thriller author believes the café should be his. As Caitlin struggles to decipher why a stranger left her the property, she uncovers a hidden diary within the café walls. To unlock the secrets of her own past, she'll have to untangle a decades-old mystery and figure out if the irritable writer next door is her greatest threat-or her second chance at love.

✓ Complete Series Box Set

✓ Later-in-Life / Midlife Romance

✓ Enemies-to-Lovers Vibes

✓ Grumpy Thriller Writer Romance

✓ Inherited a Business Mystery

✓ Female Friendship / Road Trip

✓ Clean & Wholesome Romance

✓ Coastal North Carolina Setting

Heat Level: Clean / Closed door

Vibes: Binge-worthy, mysterious, emotional, grumpy-meets-sunshine

Setting: Small-town beach café, North Carolina

Trope Tags: Midlife reinvention, hidden diary, enemies to lovers, complete series

Ending: HEA (Complete Series Box Set)

Perfect for fans of: Sage Parker, June Woods, and Susan Mallery