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By: Sarah Madelin

Marin Beckett grew up inside a real-life love story-her dad's famous memoir about his own mental illness, the steadfast love of her mother, and their little blue cottage on the English coast. It's a celebrated book, but it's also ancient history. Her parents' marriage is over, her dad is a recluse, and Marin pays his bills by writing romance novels. But she's no hopeless romantic. Her professor fianc? had always joked that Marin keeps love locked up in books, and this was before she'd caught him tutoring a student in their bed. Now, with an overdue novel and a distaste for romance, Marin wonders if he was right. Had watching literature's most beautiful love story end in reality's ugliest split warped her ability to commit?When her dad needs to sell the little blue cottage to keep the home he's sequestered himself in for years, Marin returns to England. Part writing retreat, part real-estate deal, part quest to untangle her present from the past, she's determined to put her life right. She's charmed by the tiny town she had once called home-and by Sam, the gorgeous young guy who keeps asking her out. Most of all, she's surprised to find that, rather than ripping open her family's wounds, the little house soothes her broken heart. Unwilling to let it pass out of her life again, she's determined to buy it herself. But she's also bankrupt of inspiration. On the verge of losing her book contract, she secretly uses her budding relationship with Sam, along with his compelling family tragedy, as the basis for her new romance novel.Marin expects their connection to dwindle, but Sam creates a problem. Whether he's helping his young sisters cope with their mother's death or reminding Marin that her past doesn't dictate her future, Sam wins her over. As her publisher falls in love with the book-in-progress, Marin finds herself falling in love with Sam. She's discovered a romance she that truly believes in and reconnected with her past, but she's caught up in a lie that may cost her both.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955853002
• ISBN13: 9781955853002
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Spindlefern Press