THE CAFÉ NEXT DOOR

She came back to Cormorant Cove to save a café. She didn't expect to find a reason to stay.

After a painful breakup and a life that no longer feels like her own, Josie Halloway returns to the small coastal town where she spent her childhood summers. Her late aunt has left her a struggling café, a stack of unpaid bills, and more memories than Josie is ready to face.

Next door, Simon Locke runs the town's old bookstore. He is reserved, stubborn, and far too interested in what happens to the café.

When a beloved harbor festival is threatened by a developer's plans, Josie and Simon are forced to work together to help save the celebration and the businesses that depend on it.

But as their reluctant partnership turns into friendship, and friendship into something harder to ignore, Josie discovers a secret connecting Simon's family to her aunt's past: an unfinished love story, a missing letter, and a truth buried for fifty years.

Now Josie has to decide whether Cormorant Cove is only a place she came back to fix... or the home she never realized she was looking for.

The Café Next Door is a warm, closed-door small-town romance filled with coastal charm, grumpy-sunshine chemistry, found family, second chances, witty banter, and a touch of mystery.