The Fortune Bay Series

A ramshackle cabin on the lake - a place for new beginnings. This prequel novella, the introduction to The Fortune Bay Series, is the perfect weekend listen. Colleen Murphy’s maternal time bomb is ready to explode. After a bad break-up in the city, she heads back to the lake and forest she loves in Fortune Bay. Now she’s living in the cabin, helping out at the marina and looking for Mr. Right. Widower Alex Porter seeks refuge at his childhood cottage, the only place he's ever really felt at home.

Maddie’s too busy for romance, and as a single mom has been too busy trying to make ends meet to jump start her languishing photography career. But when her daughter decides to spend the summer with her father, Maddie accepts the offer of her first solo art show, leaves Seattle and the safety of her job, rents a quaint cottage on a lake in the mountains of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula and gets to work. She has a short timeline to prepare for her show, and her landlord Jake Murphy, a single dad himself, proves to be quite a distraction.

Frankie Alvarez has built a life for herself in Fortune Bay, has a good job teaching at the high school and a bungalow on the lake. Although she hasn't spoken to her father in three years, every month he sends her a check. And every month she rips it up.

Just out of pastry school, Louise Ingstrom has returned to Fortune Bay for Christmas before going to Seattle to find her dream job. Her dad is sick and she wants to help out, but she is staying at the Murphy's cabin for the month to avoid the drama at home.