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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Saltwater Connection

The Saltwater Connection

Barlee, M. A.

Paperback

Series: Hartwell Cove, Book 1

Christian FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798186651949
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She came back to restore a house. She did not expect the town to remember her.

After twenty-three years away, Mara Calloway returns to Hartwell Cove, Maine, with a clipboard, a deadline, and a career-defining restoration project: Clearwater House.

The work should be simple.

Three months. One historic waterfront property. Then back to Boston, where her life is orderly, successful, and safely distant from everything she left behind.

But Hartwell Cove remembers.

So does Cole Mackay.

A boatbuilder and heritage contractor with his own quiet history, Cole knows Clearwater House better than anyone. He also remembers Mara, or at least the woman she used to be, before leaving became the only answer she could find.

As the house begins revealing what time has hidden, Mara is drawn back into the rhythms of the town, the work of restoration, old friendships, and the quiet pull of a life she never quite stopped wanting.

But coming home is not the same as belonging - and some things can only be rebuilt if you are brave enough to name what broke.

A quiet, atmospheric novel of second chances, found family, coastal memory, and the places that call us back.

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