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The Lighthouse at Lilac Cove: A Sweet Later-in-Life Seaside Romance
Paperback
Series: Lilac Cove, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For eight winters she has climbed the dark tower to keep a dead man's light. Then a stranger comes to buy it all.
Marian Holloway is the keeper's widow, and she has made her peace with what that means. She lives alone in the cottage on Seal Point, stokes the wood stove, and walks the snow-packed path to the old lighthouse every morning-the way she has since the day she let the light go dark. Her husband, Walter, kept that beam burning for the harbor for decades. It is his memorial, and it is the whole of her life, and she wants nothing more than to be left to it.
Then a developer sets their sights on the point.
They've circled this town before-turned away from the bookshop, the chandlery, the cafe. This is their biggest play yet, and they send a man to close the deal.
Daniel Cooper is older, weathered, courtly in a worn coat, the kind of man who has spent a long career buying up coastal places and watching them disappear. He expects a fast signature and a flight home. He meets a slight, immovable woman on a snowbound porch who tells him the place is not for sale-not to him, not to anyone.
But Daniel doesn't push. He listens. He asks about Walter, about the lamp room, about what the light was when someone still kept it burning. And against every reason she has, Marian finds herself letting the enemy through the door.
He is the man sent to take everything she has left. He may also be the one person who understands why she can't let it go.
What does a woman do when her own heart starts arguing for the other side-later in life, when she's decided her story is already over?
The Lighthouse at Lilac Cove is a sweet, closed-door, later-in-life seaside romance featuring a widow guarding her late husband's lighthouse, the developer's man sent to buy it who changes sides, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Cozy seaside small-town romance
- Later in life and second chance at love stories
- A widow who learns it isn't too late to live and to love again
- Opposites attract: the guardian of the past and the man sent to take it
- Sweet, clean, closed-door slow burn
- A weathered hero who remembers the good man he used to be
- Small-town found family closing ranks for one of their own
- A hard-won HEA
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