Last Ferry, First Kiss

Lena Hart drove six hours from Boston to catch the last ferry in Port Merrow. She missed it by a minute.

The man who locked the booth did not apologize. Eli Brooks knows the tide, the engine, and every reason a city woman should turn around before morning. He also knew her aunt—the woman who left Lena a peeling ticket booth, a sagging cottage, and a town that runs on a crossing no developer has managed to buy.

Northline Holdings wants the dock. The town wants the ferry to keep running. Lena wants a clean decision and a flight home.

Instead she gets a missing key, a card reader that eats receipts, and a mechanic who will fix anything with a plug except the part where he might need her.

If she sells, Port Merrow loses the last thing that still belongs to the people who use it. If she stays, she has to learn the difference between repairing a life and refusing to let anyone help.

A small-town romance about docks, stubborn hearts, and the first crossing that matters.