Maya Chen built her café from the bones of her mother’s bakery. She runs Main Street’s resistance, tracks every shadow in Coral Cove, and does not — under any circumstances — let strangers in.
Then a strange shows up at six in the morning, taking notes about her town on his phone.
Jake Calloway is an architect with a clipboard, a polite smile, and a client he refuses to name. By the time Maya figures out who sent him, she’s already let him fix her plumbing, share her sidewalk, and almost — almost — kiss her on the pier.
Some men are exactly as dangerous as they look. Some men are worse. And some men are the wrong side of every line you’ve ever drawn — until they aren’t.
The Wrong Side of the Pier is Book One of The Copper Tide Novels: contemporary romance with sharp banter, slow-burn tension, closed-door intimacy, and a small town that refuses to be sold. Standalone HEA. Series-long fight just getting started.
Start here.
