WELCOME TO SEA PORT
from scratch
WELCOME TO SEA PORT #1
Mary Woods didn’t get tenure.
She was smart, accomplished, and she failed — that’s how she saw it, at least. After wallowing in her feelings, she dusted herself off and started looking for a plan b, and she found it.
Sea Port was a tiny southern town on the verge of collapse, looking to entice people to move to the middle of nowhere and start life anew.
Mary was one of those people.
After her move to Sea Port — with her cat, Cat-leen Cleaver, in tow — Mary starts her life over in Sea Port as a small town baker. Mary has made it her mission to get to know as many town residents as possible, and a few days before the opening of her new bakery, Confections, she meets Miguel Santos, the town’s new police officer, and his good friend and fire chief, Billy Knox. She’d just wanted to offer some sweet treats from her shop, but their chemistry produces so much more.
Inheritance
WELCOME TO SEA PORT #2
Lorraine Freeman had never been interested in putting down roots. What was more fun than leaving a place before it got boring and stale or the fresh excitement of starting over? Sea Port, Middle of Nowhere isn’t the most interesting location, but it has its charms, like Mary’s sweet treats and a beautiful, bearded contractor with baggage of his own.
Jonah Brown is from a long line of Porties, but he couldn’t wait to leave his small town at eighteen and he did. But after building a life in a big city, his father’s unexpected death pulls Jonah back to the emotional wreckage of a life without family.
From the moment they meet, Jonah and Lorraine bring out a deep passion they’d never experienced with one another. And a little daring too!
Small town secrets
WELCOME TO SEA PORT #3
Nothing ever happened in Sea Port!
Most businesses closed long before dark, their county was dry so there hadn’t been a bar in the town since before Prohibition, and the Wi-Fi was so slow it seemed like it was buffering into this century. Small town living had never been exciting before the baker, the fire chief, and the new chief of police all moved in together and Jonah and the librarian had been spotted all over town with rumpled clothes and smeared lipstick.
The Sea Port gossip mill had been very busy in recent years. So busy they hadn’t yet noticed that Lisa Sullivan, the coffee shop proprietor, was crushing hard on the baker's apprentice, Bria Stone. Town gossips had also missed that Mayor Waltham has been acting just a bit strange lately.
Sully and Bria get closer over a fresh batch of Bria’s bagels, while a decades-old secret about the Waltham family comes to light.
The drama is good, but the bagels are better.
her christmas cookie
WELCOME TO SEA PORT #4
Mary, Knox, and Santos are in love and, by now, not even the town gossips are scandalized. The holidays are coming and Santos, especially, is ready for them to take their relationship to the next level.
It’s time to meet their families!
Come along as Mary, Knox, and Santos navigate parents hungry for grandchildren yesterday, recipe swaps, and the unexpected realization that all love isn't easy.