For forty years, Frannie Beaumont and Hollis Greer have been having the same argument. It might be the closest either of them has ever come to saying I love you.
At sixty, Frannie keeps the whole memory of Amelia Island in a little 1898 cottage at the edge of the marsh, every deed and plat map and family that ever came home on the tide. She has quietly filed her own heart away since the morning she lost her husband, and she tells herself she is content with that. Then a smooth developer starts buying up the marsh-edge block for a gated resort, and the Marsh House, the heron rookery, and the island's history are suddenly all for sale.
Hollis Greer has counted the herons off that marsh for as long as Frannie has kept its records, and he has been losing the same gentle argument with her for just as long, on purpose, because it is the only way he knows to keep her talking to him. Now the one place that was ever theirs is in danger, and the man who has never once said the true thing has to choose between saving the marsh and saving the woman he has loved since a long-ago summer.
But Hollis is keeping a quiet secret that could cost them everything, and a lifetime of nearly is finally coming due.
Marsh Song is a sweet, clean, slow-burn later-in-life romance, no spice, found family, a stubborn small town worth fighting for, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Welcome back to Amelia Island, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.
Each Amelia Island book is a standalone with its own happy ending and can be read in any order.