The View from Coral Cove: A Sweet Contemporary Romance -- Amy Clipston

<p><strong>When a jilted romance novelist escapes to a small beach town, the last thing she expected to find was the start of an even better love story.</strong></p><p>In the wake of a broken engagement and the death of her last surviving family member, sweet romance novelist Maya Reynolds moves to the haven of Coral Cove, North Carolina, to take over her great-aunt's toy store. Some of her grief is immediately eased by imaginative eight-year-old Ashlyn Tanner, who talks her into adopting a kitten and inspires Maya to create a princess tea-party room in the store.</p><p>Ashlyn's dad, local veterinarian Brody Tanner, is quickly smitten by the newest resident of his hometown. As a single parent, he sacrifices a lot in order to give Ashlyn the world, so a romantic entanglement with Maya is not a distraction he is looking for.</p><p>As the three develop a deepening bond in the seaside town where Maya experienced some of her happiest childhood memories, clouds cast a shadow over Maya's hope for the future: an impossible deadline looms over her next novel, a long-held secret by her late mother about Maya's absent father comes to light, and Brody's resolve to avoid romance seems unbreakable.</p><p>But together, they just might discover that sometimes happy endings happen outside the pages of Maya's novels too.</p><p>Advance praise for <em>The View from Coral Cove</em>: </p><p>"Grieving and brokenhearted, novelist Maya Reynolds moves to Coral Cove, the place where she felt happiest