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The Salt Air Between Us
Paperback
Series: The Salt Air, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 7 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Salt Air Between Us: Kindle blurb
Some people leave quietly. Maya Callahan left without a word.
After three years with Dominic Hale, a charming London PR man whose control crept up so slowly she never noticed the temperature dropping, Maya finds a second phone in his coat pocket. By Monday morning she's on a train to the coast with one thought in her head: I just need to get to the sea.
She lands in Sheringham, a Norfolk fishing town of shingle beaches, salt-stung windows and people who ask nothing of a stranger. She rents a damp room above a launderette and walks the shoreline at dawn. When her savings run low, she takes a job at The Anchorage, a café run by Calvin Morrow, a former structural engineer who inherited the place from his late father and never quite left.
Calvin is steady, dryly funny, and direct in a way Maya has forgotten a man could be. Between the early shifts and the quiet evenings, something grows between them that neither of them rushes.
Then Dominic turns up, pleasant, reasonable and endlessly patient. He doesn't need to win the town over. He needs only one conversation alone with Maya, and one carefully placed remark about Calvin's past. After three years of being told her instincts were wrong, it's enough to make her doubt them again.
Calvin has his own reasons for staying silent. Neither of them wants to be the first to speak, and the silence between them is getting harder to ignore.
The Salt Air Between Us is a warm, slow-burn contemporary romance about starting over, about learning to trust your own judgement again, and about finding the place where you finally feel like yourself. It has a windswept Norfolk setting, a café that smells of fresh bread, a man who listens, and a love story built out of small, ordinary, honest moments.
Perfect for readers who love: a coastal small-town setting, quiet second chances, and a heroine who rebuilds her life on her own terms.
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