by Amy Clipston >> Broken-hearted novelist Maya Reynolds moves to Coral Cove, N.C. to take over her great-aunt’s toy store. There she encounters imaginative 8-year-old Ashlyn Tanner. Ashlyn’s dad, Brody, is smitten by Maya but, as a single parent, he is not looking for a romantic entanglement. As the three develop a deepening bond in the town where Maya experienced some of her happiest childhood memories, clouds cast a shadow over Maya’s hope for the future: an impossible deadline looms over her next novel, a long-held secret by her late mother about Maya’s absent father comes to light, and Brody’s resolve to avoid romance seems unbreakable. But together, they just might discover that sometimes happy endings happen outside the pages of Maya’s novels too.
