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Tranquil Bay #3
Lila After The Storm
When the storm hits Tranquil Bay, Lila Greer's sixteen-year-old son Grady goes missing. Rescue teams find his backpack and phone in the flooded lighthouse, but no Grady. By the time they finally find him, hypothermic and barely breathing, Lila's carefully controlled world has cracked wide open. Grady survives. But the crisis pulls Ethan back into her orbit in ways she wasn't prepared for, and as they navigate their son's recovery together, old feelings surface that neither of them knows what to do with. Ethan feels like home. He also feels like a mistake she's already made once. Lila isn't sure those two things cancel each other out.
Grace Tanner is trying to be a good friend, a good neighbor, and a reasonable adult about Cameron Porter, which would be easier if his mother would stop looking at her like she's a disaster waiting to happen. Things between her and Cam are moving, slowly, carefully, in a direction Grace is afraid to name. But Paul Wright still hasn't gone back to Massachusetts. The police still haven't found the arsonist. And Grace has the unsettling feeling she's being watched. When Cameron tells her his daughter Farrah is arriving at the end of the week, and he'll need to move back to his place, Grace understands. She left him once. She doesn't get to complain about him leaving now. She just wishes understanding didn't feel quite so much like losing him all over again.
Mallory Mason is falling, and for once she's not trying to talk herself out of it. Conor O'Dell is warm and steady and shows up — for her, for the families she sheltered during the storm, for everyone who needs him. When his parents arrive and make clear they still don't take him seriously, Mallory sees exactly who Conor is and exactly what his family refuses to see. She wants to do something about that. It turns out she has an idea.
But the storm that hit Tranquil Bay was nothing compared to what's coming.
Lila has carried a secret for thirty years — one that cost her a friendship and has been quietly poisoning everything since. When it finally breaks open in a moment of anger, the wrong person is standing close enough to hear every word.
Some secrets don't stay buried. Some truths can't be unspoken. And for the women of Tranquil Bay, nothing will ever look quite the same.
The third installment in the Tranquil Bay saga. Tequila Tuesdays • Found family • Second chances with complications • Friends who stay when it gets hard • Episodic saga
Grace Tanner is trying to be a good friend, a good neighbor, and a reasonable adult about Cameron Porter, which would be easier if his mother would stop looking at her like she's a disaster waiting to happen. Things between her and Cam are moving, slowly, carefully, in a direction Grace is afraid to name. But Paul Wright still hasn't gone back to Massachusetts. The police still haven't found the arsonist. And Grace has the unsettling feeling she's being watched. When Cameron tells her his daughter Farrah is arriving at the end of the week, and he'll need to move back to his place, Grace understands. She left him once. She doesn't get to complain about him leaving now. She just wishes understanding didn't feel quite so much like losing him all over again.
Mallory Mason is falling, and for once she's not trying to talk herself out of it. Conor O'Dell is warm and steady and shows up — for her, for the families she sheltered during the storm, for everyone who needs him. When his parents arrive and make clear they still don't take him seriously, Mallory sees exactly who Conor is and exactly what his family refuses to see. She wants to do something about that. It turns out she has an idea.
But the storm that hit Tranquil Bay was nothing compared to what's coming.
Lila has carried a secret for thirty years — one that cost her a friendship and has been quietly poisoning everything since. When it finally breaks open in a moment of anger, the wrong person is standing close enough to hear every word.
Some secrets don't stay buried. Some truths can't be unspoken. And for the women of Tranquil Bay, nothing will ever look quite the same.
The third installment in the Tranquil Bay saga. Tequila Tuesdays • Found family • Second chances with complications • Friends who stay when it gets hard • Episodic saga
108 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 31, 2026
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