Harbor of Quiet Fires series
A sensual small-town comfort romance series about makers, second acts, coastal weather, and adults learning that peace can be passionate without being simple.
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The House That Listened
In Bellwether Cove, where the fog rolls in soft and the tide keeps its own time, luthier June Marlowe has spent five quiet years fixing other people's broken things and calling it enough. Then the first autumn storm blows Theo Bell back into her workshop with warm bread, an old ache neither of them has named, and news that the same landlord means to take both her repair hall and his family's shuttered restaurant. As they race to save what they've built, June must decide whether wanting Theo again is a betrayal of what she lost — or the bravest repair of all. Tender, mature, and warmly grounded in the textures of wood, bread, and salt air, The House That Listened opens the Harbor of Quiet Fires series with a mature, body-positive romance about choosing pleasure, home, and each other, right out loud, on lantern tide night. By Mara Lark. Listed listening length: 13 minutes. Category: Cozy / Comfort Romance. Story dynamics: Friends to Lovers, Healing Romance / Trauma Recovery, Mutual Pining, Found Family Romance. Book 1 in Harbor of Quiet Fires.