Sea Glass Summer

A fired news producer. A grandmother's beach cottage. One jar of sea glass that never stopped waiting.

Tara Lawson had the Atlanta career, the engagement ring, the plan. Now, at thirty, she has none of it. One on-air mistake cost her the TV producer job she built her life around — and days later, a phone call from a small-town attorney tells her that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is gone. Tara returns to Seagrove, South Carolina, to settle an estate she never asked for and say a goodbye she never got to give.

Noah never really left. He owns Beachcombers now, the little shop on the town square where he turns sea glass into art — including a few pieces he's never been willing to sell. He's been waiting on something he'd never admit out loud: the girl who used to hunt the shoreline beside him every morning, back before she grew up and moved away.

As Tara sorts through her grandmother's cottage — and the secrets her grandmother left behind — her days with Noah start to feel like coming home. But Atlanta isn't done with her yet. When the career she thought she'd lost comes calling with a deadline attached, Tara must decide what starting over really means: the life she planned, or the one that's been waiting on this beach all along.

Set in the beloved town of Seagrove, alongside Julie, Dixie, and the whole Down Yonder Bookstore crew, this is a story about grief that softens, dreams that resurface, and a love that was there the whole time.

Pull up a beach chair — Seagrove is waiting.