Songbound

It’s the third winter since Wren Baker came home to Saltmarsh, and it’s a hard one. The great oak at Saltmarsh’s heart is dying by quarters. A dropped limb, a browning crown, an illness no tree doctor can name, and everything worth keeping standing in her shade.

Against that fear, Cora Asbury runs Saltmarsh Island the way the tide runs the marsh. Everywhere at once, on schedule, and without asking permission. She’s managed hurricanes, developers, lawsuits, and a lifetime of town meetings. She’s never once managed to tell the man she loves what she is.

Graham Lanier gave up a career paving coastlines for a table by the window and the mayor’s smile. He knows she’s keeping something. He’s a patient man, with no idea that the woman he means to marry is also the chestnut mare he admires at the tree line.

Some secrets end a love story. This one has to begin with a walk to the tree line at dusk, and a woman brave enough to show him everything.

The Song is coming back. Hear it first in SONGBOUND.