Length8h 34m
About this audiobook
*"You're thirty-eight thousand in arrears."*
Leo Hartwell takes that call standing at the registration desk of his grandmother's inn, watching a ceiling stain spread and drip onto the welcome mat. Six months delinquent plus interest, on a building that has been hemorrhaging money since before his father died. The west wing needs a full tear-off. July bookings are up twelve percent, which is not enough. Thirty days, then foreclosure.
His cousin Samir walks in with empanadas and a plan B nobody asked for. Then the man who wants the building arrives.
Rafe Delgado works for Cascade Living Group, which has spent six months quietly acquiring properties along the Oregon coast and in Port Blaine specifically. He is direct about it in front of the town council: the Hartwell Inn is *"the keystone. Without it, our entire development plan collapses."* He has read the financials. Three years in the red. Water in the foundation. An electrical system from the nineteen-seventies.
He also knows this coastline better than a stranger should. He came here as a boy, on a bus, alone. His brother Daniel found a cove that summer and drew a map of it. Rafe wears Daniel's worn leather bracelet and does not take it off.
Ruth Hartwell has run the inn for forty years and sits in the third row in her best cardigan while the vote happens. Maya Okoro has a three-year business plan and an eco-tourism angle. Samir has a photograph, a debt of fifty thousand dollars to a man in Portland, and eventually a lawyer and a petition claiming a share of the property.
And under the east wing there is water coming up through volcanic basalt, mineral-rich and warm, which the Coquille used long before anyone thought to build an inn on top of it.
What Leo cannot work out is whether Rafe at that podium is a betrayal or a role he agreed to play.
This is a small-town MM romance on the Oregon coast: a foreclosure clock, a corporate acquisition, a dead brother's map, a hot spring, and a lighthouse that keeps sweeping the water whatever else is happening.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Letter That Changed Everything
3Chapter 2 - The Man Who Wants My Home
4Chapter 3 - The Call I Wasn’t Meant to Hear
5Chapter 4 - A Storm and a Crack in the Wall
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6Chapter 5 - What Cousins Keep Hidden
7Chapter 6 - The Cove That Knows No Lies
8Chapter 7 - The Truth She Wouldn’t Say
9Chapter 8 - The Festival Kiss
10Chapter 9 - The Photograph That Could Ruin Everything
11Chapter 10 - The Council Chamber Showdown
12Chapter 11 - The Midpoint: I Choose You
13Chapter 12 - While the Cat’s Away
14Chapter 13 - The Hospital Vigil
15Chapter 14 - The Brother’s Truth
16Chapter 15 - The Long Two Weeks
17Chapter 16 - The Final Offer
18Chapter 17 - The Aftermath: What the Tide Takes
19Chapter 18 - The Black Moment
20Chapter 19 - The Grand Gesture
21Chapter 20 - The New Normal
22Chapter 21 - The Investor’s Conditions
23Chapter 22 - The Midnight Renovations
24Chapter 23 - The Secret Spring
25Chapter 24 - The Driftwood Festival Preparations
26Chapter 25 - The Night Before the Festival
27Chapter 26 - The Festival of Second Chances
28Chapter 27 - The Lighthouse Keeps Watch
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Emmy Sutton
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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