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All The Wrong Reasons: A Small-Town Grumpy Sunshine Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One viral video. One inherited ruin. One enormous, infuriating man holding a lien on both.
Event planner Delaney Mercer had a color-coded life - until she ended her engagement in front of 240 guests with a champagne tower and total honesty. Now she's the internet's favorite cautionary tale, and the only thing she owns outright is a dying inn on the Georgia coast, complete with a leaking roof, a raccoon named Gerald, and an eighty-year-old sea captain the will won't let her evict.
Then she meets the contractor.
Beckett Rye talks in eight-word sentences, fixes everything in town, and wants nothing out loud - and he's holding $180,000 of paper against Laney's only future. He'll rebuild her inn. He won't explain himself. And he definitely won't admit why he keeps making her coffee exactly right.
But someone with deep pockets and too many shell companies is quietly buying the Saltwick waterfront, and Laney's inn is the hole in their map. To save the town that's betting on them (literally - there's a pool, the diner is holding the money), Laney has to pull off the impossible reopening of the season... and Beckett has to learn the one skill he's spent his whole life avoiding: wanting out loud.
A steamy, banter-forward small-town romance with found family, a meddling group text, one legendary citronella torch, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 of the Saltwick series - each book a new couple, same unforgettable town.
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