book cover of Chasing Waves
 

Chasing Waves

(2026)
(The second book in the Marler Island series)
A novel by

 
 
She calls him the Mayor of Flirt.
He simply keeps showing up.


At forty, Gretchen Holloway is finally back on her own two feet. After a marriage that slowly taught her to make herself smaller, she returned home to Marler Island and got to work. Now, she’s managing the spa she loves, surrounded by family and friends, and adjusting to life with her daughter away at college.

The last thing she needs is a disruption.

Yet Rhodes Wilder—charming landscaper, childhood friend, and devoted single dad—has been getting under Gretchen's skin since she returned to the island. One spectacularly bad interaction convinced her his attention is better avoided, and she’s stuck to it.

But when a worsening problem with her arm threatens the career she's worked so hard to build, Rhodes does something Gretchen never expects.

He shows up. Over and over again.

As autumn settles over Marler Island, quiet acts of kindness, an unexpected trip to the mainland, and one very unconventional first date begin to dismantle everything Gretchen thought she knew about Rhodes—and maybe a few things she believed about herself.

Because the right kind of love doesn't ask you to become less—it gives you room to grow.

Tender, uplifting, and full of found family, later-in-life love, and the beauty of beginning again, Chasing Waves is a closed-door women's romance about discovery, healing, and growth – with a little romance to make you swoon.


Genre: Romance

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