Dolphin Cove

A heartbroken widow. A husband's secret legacy. Olivia and her friends must solve the mystery of what her husband didn't tell her before he died. Olivia Crawford had every intention of selling the old Barker place when she returned to Echo Key to see the falling-down old mansion her late husband bought. It was supposed to be where they would spend their sunset years together, fulfilling his dream of becoming an innkeeper. Instead, it's a reminder of the nightmare that stole her beloved, leaving her alone. Well, not alone. She has her best friend, Jen, and her dear aunt, Coretta, with whom they spent so many summers in Echo Key as children. No one is more surprised than Olivia when Jen, whose own heart is hurting after a nasty divorce, convinces her to fix it up and run the inn together. It's a crazy plan, and Olivia doesn't do crazy. Her partner in life was the dreamer. Olivia just hopes that keeping his dream alive will be the best way for her to live without him. And maybe find new happiness in the Florida haven that is Echo Key.

A disgraced designer. A famous client with a secret agenda. Maggie must dodge a determined producer and his many minions to get at the truth behind her humiliating public downfall, while hiding out at her sister's B&B renovation. Maggie Harper has spent her adult life building a career as a home designer to the stars in California. Working on a new reality TV show seems like just another feather in her cap, especially since it will mean creating something perfect for a certain hunky action star. When it all goes horribly, mortifyingly wrong, there is only one place she can go to dodge the determined producer who engineered her downfall: Echo Key and the loving arms of her older sister, Olivia, and their firecracker of an aunt, Coretta. Her reputation in tatters, all Maggie wants to do is hunker down and wait for some new scandal to draw attention away from her. But that would be giving up, and Maggie is no quitter. A strong circle of women friends and family are just what she needs to overcome the professional humiliation and personal heartbreak, and her sister's B&B project, Inn The Shallows, is the safest space to share her secrets with the ones she loves.

A resilient real estate agent. A bodyguard with no one to protect. When Evelyn's missing ex-husband turns up dead, many fingers point to her as the primary suspect. As Evelyn navigates an unfair investigation into her past, she has never needed her close circle of friends more. Evelyn Ansel once made the terrible mistake of marrying a man with a roving eye and a cruel disposition. When Marty Kling left her to raise three small children on her own, she picked herself up and built a successful career as Echo Key's go-to real estate agent. Marty was always bad news. When he went missing six years ago, she figured he'd left his latest wife for a new woman, just as he had done to Evelyn. And good riddance. But Marty wasn't missing-and investigators are looking at Evelyn as a suspect in his death. Leave it to Marty to cause her just as much grief from beyond the grave as he did in life. Now she has to deal with Marty's nasty widow pointing the finger of blame, a determined DA who has Evelyn in his sights, and a sleazy journalist with a grudge. As Evelyn feels the legal net closing around her, she turns to her circle of friends to help set her free.

A determined divorcee. A tall, dark, and dependable deputy sheriff. Jen Hollister was belittled by her ex for years before an unforgivable betrayal opened her eyes and she kicked him to the curb. Unfortunately, he won't stay gone. Now he's hounding her to give back a stupid trophy she doesn't have. To make matters worse, she's having bizarre dreams that urge her to check out the creepy attic in the B&B she's renovating with her best friend, Olivia Crawford. Leave it to Tom the Troglodyte to disturb her waking and sleeping lives by ramping up the stress as she builds a new life in Echo Key. As her ex-husband's behavior becomes increasingly unhinged, Jen is never so glad to have Theo Price, her deputy boyfriend, in her life and the support of the rest of her Fearsome Foursome friends. Jen knows she can always count on Olivia, Maggie Harper, and Evelyn Ansel to have her back. And, of course, the woman who was like a mother to her while she was growing up, Olivia and Maggie's aunt, the formidable Coretta Turner.

Coretta Turner knows herself to be a successful, formidable, and very family-oriented woman. She is fiercely protective of the loved ones in her life, blood relatives and otherwise. With the massive renovation of her niece's bed-and-breakfast, Inn The Shallows, nearly complete in time for the Christmas season, Coretta's Echo Key Café will be busier than ever. Even better is that, for the first time, she can look forward to spending her golden years surrounded by family. Her once-estranged sister is learning to be happy. Her nieces have found love and her great-nieces, including the grandchild of her beloved late brother, are putting down roots in Echo Key. She even has a newborn in the family to love on. When a man from her past arrives in town, she's reminded of why she chose to stay in Echo Key-and the joy of finding her true love, only to lose him and what they could have had together. Though Coretta's life took an unexpected turn, she accepts that her personal tragedy shaped her into the woman she is and the blessed life she has. Blessings that will, with any luck, soon include the ringing of wedding bells for some of those who are nearest and dearest to her heart.