Claire Ashton came to the tiny town of Gull's Nest to close a chapter—selling her late sister's café and getting back to her travel writing. She didn't expect to fall for a quiet harbormaster with steady hands and storm-gray eyes. Or to become guardian to her grieving teenage niece who dreams in buttercream and speaks fluent sourdough. And she definitely didn't expect to discover her sister's hidden love letters that reveal a passion the whole town conspired to protect. As Claire, Evan, and eighteen-year-old Tessa search for answers, they find themselves caught between rival chowder competitions, vindictive health inspections, and a seagull named Harold who might actually be running the town. But the biggest mystery of all? Whether Claire has the courage to choose love over logic, family over freedom, and make Gull's Nest her forever home.