| Author/Contributor(s): | Seitz, Rebeca; Rooney, Kathleen C. |
| Publisher: | Central Avenue |
| Date: | 2/2/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Meg Harrison has built her life on control. At just thirty-two, she’s one of the youngest—and few female—partners at a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm. She knows how to manage high-stakes cases, demanding clients, and carefully compartmentalized emotions.
What she doesn’t know how to manage is grief.
When her father, a beloved Naples attorney, dies suddenly, Meg is forced to return to the coastal town she loves—but avoids. Overwhelmed by the logistics of burying her father and unsettled by memories of losing her mother years earlier, Meg makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision: she agrees to advise one of Joe’s longtime clients on the sale of his luxury car valet business.
It should be easy. Straightforward. Temporary.
Instead, Meg finds herself navigating unfamiliar business terrain, a town rapidly changing under the pressure of growth, and a community that still remembers the girl she used to be. Things get even more complicated when she runs into Nolan Wainwright—a successful New York architect, Naples native, and one of the last people she expects to see while unraveling.
As professional challenges mount and emotions surface, Meg begins to question the life she’s built so carefully. Her father’s unfinished work, the town’s fragile charm, and her own guarded heart all demand answers she’s no longer sure she can avoid.
Set beneath glowing Gulf Coast sunsets, Book One of the Return to Naples series is a cozy, emotionally rich women’s fiction novel about grief, legacy, second chances, and the courage it takes to decide where—and with whom—you truly belong.