New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart returns to her
beloved Chesapeake Diaries series with a charming beachside romance that
is "everything you love about small-town romance" (#1 New York Times
bestselling author Barbara Freethy).
Always believing she was an ugly duckling, Chrissy Jenkins thought she
had finally turned into a swan when her real-life Prince Charming swept
her off her feet. But as his true character began to crack his perfect
facade, Chrissy realized that not only was she better off without him,
but that she was the only one who had the power to transform her life.
Returning to her ancestral home on Cannonball Island for a family
wedding, Chrissy is reintroduced to a legacy she'd all but forgotten. In
choosing to stay on the island, she reboots her life, successfully
reinventing herself as a chef at Blossoms, an up-and-coming restaurant
in St. Dennis. But despite her newfound self-confidence, she still
doesn't trust her taste in men. So when she meets Jared Chandler, a
handsome ship salvager staying at the inn while he conducts a nearby
recovery operation, Chrissy's certain she can keep him as a friend--even
though he's everything any woman would want in a man. As fellow
newcomers, together they discover the charm of the historic bayside town
and explore the idyllic island.
But when Chrissy agrees to be Jared's date for his father's wedding,
they embark on a weekend that will find them each seeing the other in a
completely different light, one that will change their lives foreve
