Scandal has all but emptied Miss Mabel Blessington’s dress shop. But when a famous singer walks through her door wanting to disappear, and a quiet innkeeper on the Oregon coast needs a wife, Miss Mabel sees what she’s always seen: two people who don’t know they need each other yet.
Amelia Delacroix is one of the most famous voices on the West Coast, and she’s exhausted by every bit of it. The patrons who treat her like an investment. The reporters who follow her to the grocer’s. The manager talks about her as if she were a schedule instead of a person. She walks into Miss Mabel’s shop not for fame or fortune but for something she’s never had, a life that’s ordinary, quiet, and hers.
Pelican Cove innkeeper Everett Shaw has never set foot in a theater, never read a society page, and wouldn’t recognize a celebrity if they showed up at his inn asking for a room. He’s been alone long enough to know he doesn’t want to be anymore.
When her manager, a parade of reporters, and a crowd of admirers descend on Pelican Cove, the quiet life she’s building starts to crack. So does her certainty that walking away was the right choice. Can a woman who once filled theaters find happiness in a town of three hundred? And can a man who’s never raised his voice learn to fight for the one person worth raising it for?
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