The Lights By The Sea: A heartwarming Small Town, Grumpy/Sunshine cozy romance (Northlight Cove Book 1)

Buying a crumbling 1920s cinema on impulse—and a bottle of wine—might be the best mistake Autumn Hayes has ever made.

Burned out and done with Boston, Autumn trades her city life for Northlight Cove, a Maine fishing village where salt air and old movies feel like the fresh start she desperately needs. She has six weeks to restore the Grand Lady cinema to its former glory before opening night, and absolutely no room in her schedule for complications.

Then the town's Police Chief walks through her door with a clipboard full of code violations and a talent for dry humor that lands just wrong enough to make her want to scream.

Ryan Cole is all quiet intensity and pointed silences—a man who tends his late grandfather's lighthouse on his off-hours and watches Northlight Cove's newest arrival with the same steady, unreadable gaze he turns on the sea. He's methodical. She's chaotic. He speaks in half-sentences. She fills every silence. And somehow, every run-in between them crackles with something neither of them is ready to name.

This cozy small-town romance is full of popcorn-scented evenings, tight-knit community warmth, and the slow, delicious push and pull of two people who are absolutely, completely wrong for each other—until they're not.

Because Autumn came to Northlight Cove to build something that lasts. She just didn't expect that something might include him.