Saltwater Years

<p><strong>When Mara Carson returns to her coastal hometown to care for the aunt who once saved her she expects casseroles quiet guilt and maybe a nervous breakdown - but not the tidal wave of memories waiting on the shoreline.</strong> The past she spent sixteen years avoiding shows up everywhere: in photo albums in old friends in a letter she was never meant to read and in the eyes of a widower who smiles like he's seen every kind of storm. <strong>As grief and healing crash into each other Mara must decide whether she's allowed to build a future that isn't shaped by her childhood wounds.</strong> It turns out there's nothing quite as terrifying - or hopeful - as realizing life might still have love left in it.</p>