"The smell of the harbor never leaves you - especially when the person you left behind is still there."
She came home for the bakery. She stayed for ninety-three days. And everything she'd left behind was still there, waiting.
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Mara Henley writes warm, witty summer romance set in Michigan harbor towns. Second chances. Small towns. The people who finally come home.
"The smell of the harbor never leaves you - especially when the person you left behind is still there."
Book One of Cherry Point Summers
Joss Marchetti left Cherry Point, Michigan at nineteen with a goodbye letter pinned inside an unfinished boat. Nine years later, running a kitchen in Brooklyn feels like escape - until her grandfather's bakery calls her home. She has ninety-three days before it's gone, a regatta no one else will run, and Theo Brennan waiting across the harbor.
Theo built boats with his hands and carried only a note from the woman he loved. Now she's asking for help. The only catch: he has to pretend the last nine years didn't happen.
This is Book One of the Cherry Point Summers series. Each book is a standalone romance, but reading in order deepens the world. Book Two, Cherry Picking, is coming soon. Get notified when it launches.
Mara Henley writes warm, witty summer romances set in the small lake towns of the Great Lakes - places where the lighthouse keepers remember your grandmother by name, the bakery still sells the same lemon-blueberry tarts it did when you were seventeen, and the boy you left behind has been building boats by hand for ten years.
Her debut, The Second Chance Regatta, follows a Brooklyn pastry chef who comes back to the Michigan harbor town she fled at nineteen - and the boatbuilder she left holding a goodbye letter. It's a story about regatta sails, family bakeries, and the kind of courage it takes to row back into the harbor of someone you once loved.
Cherry Point Summers is planned as a series, with each book following a new couple in the same harbor town. Book Two, Cherry Picking, is coming soon.