Maren Cross is good at reading buildings. Load-bearing walls, sight lines, the structural logic of spaces designed to hold people — she sees it all. What she's not good at is reading the man whose dock she's been hired to help demolish.
Sent to a coastal Maine town to assess the waterfront for a development firm, Maren expects two weeks of measurements, a clean report, and a flight home. She does not expect Owen Gallagher — a third-generation lobster fisherman who communicates in two-word sentences, drinks coffee from a mug his dead father used, and has the quiet stubbornness of a man who has decided that some things are not for sale.
She definitely does not expect to fall for him while hiding the fact that her report could destroy everything he's fighting to keep.
As Maren is drawn deeper into Havenport's tight-knit world — its fierce diner owner, its crumbling inn, its town meetings that double as therapy sessions — she begins to wonder whether the life she's been building on someone else's blueprint was ever really hers. And whether the ground beneath her feet might be more solid than anything she left behind.
The Lighthouse Arrangementis a warm, sharp, secretly devastating novel about ambition and belonging, the lies we tell to protect people who didn't ask to be protected, and the terrifying act of letting someone see how you really see them.
Sent to a coastal Maine town to assess the waterfront for a development firm, Maren expects two weeks of measurements, a clean report, and a flight home. She does not expect Owen Gallagher — a third-generation lobster fisherman who communicates in two-word sentences, drinks coffee from a mug his dead father used, and has the quiet stubbornness of a man who has decided that some things are not for sale.
She definitely does not expect to fall for him while hiding the fact that her report could destroy everything he's fighting to keep.
As Maren is drawn deeper into Havenport's tight-knit world — its fierce diner owner, its crumbling inn, its town meetings that double as therapy sessions — she begins to wonder whether the life she's been building on someone else's blueprint was ever really hers. And whether the ground beneath her feet might be more solid than anything she left behind.
The Lighthouse Arrangementis a warm, sharp, secretly devastating novel about ambition and belonging, the lies we tell to protect people who didn't ask to be protected, and the terrifying act of letting someone see how you really see them.
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