The Salt Between Us

Ten years ago, Calla Beckett fled her coastal hometown with salt on her lips and a broken heart she refused to name. Now a letter from a lawyer drags her back for the reading of an inheritance she never expected, and to the man she left behind on the fog-choked pier the morning she drove away. Ned Lindqvist has spent a decade building a life from the wreckage Calla left him: the boat, the bed-and-breakfast, and the quiet patience of a man who learned to wait. He greets her at the salt-fogged harbor with eyes that remember everything and a handshake that promises nothing. But the town has not forgotten either. Calla's sister Hattie has questions she refuses to ask. The Wren family, Theo, Iris, and their sharp-tongued matriarch Eloise, hold secrets bound up in the deed to a saltbox house overlooking the cove. And Vera Donnelly, the lawyer who delivered the summons, knows more than the pages of any will could tell. At the center of it all is Maeve Beckett, the grandmother who raised them both, who has left more than property in her final testament. She has left a choice. As the autumn tides rise and the fog rolls in off the Atlantic, Calla must decide whether to claim the home that has been waiting for her or to drive back down the silver road and never return. The inheritance is the easy part. Surviving the truth is what will cost her everything.