Cedar Key Second Chance Romance Series

When a car accident forces Miami attorney June Carter to step away from her demanding career, she heads to her daughter's coastal home for some much-needed rest and healing. She isn't expecting Holt Dillinger to be there. Only now he's FBI Director Holt Dillinger, and he's recovering in Sandpiper Shores just like she is. Thirty-seven years ago, June and Holt were everything to each other: young, in love, and full of impossible dreams. Then life pulled them in opposite directions, and June made a choice she's carried ever since. As wildfire season closes in and smoke hangs over the coastal forests, the tension between them reignites just as fiercely. Old feelings resurface. Long-buried choices come back to haunt them. And the secret June has protected for thirty-seven years —the one that could shatter the family she has built and the daughter she loves—is no longer safe. Set in a charming seaside town filled with warmth, mystery, and the kind of love that refuses to fade, Secrets of Sandpiper Shores: When Smoke Clears is an emotionally rich slow-burn romance about forgiveness, second chances, and the cost of holding on to the past.