The Theater on the Shore (The Women of Blue Harbor Book 5)

Blake Monroe is a master of blueprints and a failure at feelings. As the youngest senior architect at her firm, her life is a sterile, precise skyscraper--until she’s sent back to the coastal town of Blue Harbor to restore the crumbling Historic Theater. To her firm, it’s a career milestone. To Blake, it’s a confrontation with the only girl who ever made her feel like more than a math problem.

Maeve Ellis doesn’t need a polished big-city architect telling her how to save her theater. As the passionate manager of the town’s creative heart, Maeve is protective, stubborn, and still stinging from the day Blake chose her family’s cold expectations over their ‘almost’ ten years ago. Now, they’re trapped in the same drafty rafters, forced to work together to save a building that holds all their shared secrets.

As the dust settles and the theater’s foundation is reinforced, the brittle walls between them begin to crack. Blake is determined to stay professional, but Maeve is the sunshine to her grumpy storm, a constant reminder of the life Blake abandoned. In a town where every love story begins with a reason to stay, can a woman who builds walls finally learn how to tear them down?

A steamy, emotional second-chance romance featuring the grumpy-vs-sunshine and forced-proximity tropes you love.