The perfect uplifting story of friendship and love

Can she learn to love again in a new home?

Young widow Jasmine has sold her narrowboat to move to the picturesque village of Samphire Bay. She needs a fresh start, away from the memories of the unsolved hit-and-run which killed her husband.

New neighbour Robin isn't pleased by her presence–he desperately wanted to buy her cottage, but he hasn't given up hope yet, befriending Jasmine with an agenda to persuade her to sell…

As Jasmine renovates the cottage, she and Robin grow closer, until Robin finds his motives confused. Does he still want her to sell up, or are his feelings becoming real?

Through it all, Jasmine continues processing her grief. And she is succeeding–until a shocking revelation that the mystery behind her husband's death has followed her to Samphire Bay…

An emotional, fast-paced romance for fans of Christie Barlow, Debbie Johnson and Alix Kelso.

Lesley Harcourt is based in London and has worked as narrator and actress in TV, film and theatre for many years. Her latest role has all the crime fans excited as she is in Apple TV+'s Slow Horses. She has worked on 28 audiobooks from children's fiction to working on the legendary Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth.

Sasha Morgan lives in a village by the coast in Lancashire with her husband and has one grown up son. She has written contemporary fiction in the past, with a touch of 'spice', probably due to all the Jilly Cooper novels she read as a teenager! Sasha works in the civil service.