Fishing Up My Grumpy Catch
(2026)(The sixth book in the Twin Waves Sweet Romcom series)
A novel by Cindy Ray Hale
A sunshine single mom crashes into one grumpy fisherman’s carefully guarded life—and suddenly everyone in town is rooting for the kiss.
Lottie
I move to Twin Waves for a fresh start, a photography business, and a better life for my two boys. I do not plan on Justin Spencer. He’s grumpy, quiet, and more at home on his shrimp boat than around people—but my sons adore him. The more time we spend on his dock, the more I see beneath the growls: a tender heart, steady hands, and a man who shows love instead of saying it.
Justin
I don’t do attachments. Not to women, not to families, and definitely not with a body that’s already betraying me. But Lottie and her boys slip past every defense I have. They make my dock feel like home. Lottie sees the pain I hide, the future I’ve already written off, and refuses to believe I’m too broken to love.
Falling for her is easy.
Believing I get to keep her is the hard part.
Escape to Twin Waves, a charming North Carolina beach town on the Crystal Coast, where Bookaholics Anonymous meddles, the marina is full of boats and second chances, and even the grumpiest fisherman can fall hard. Perfect for readers who love small-town rom-coms, grumpy/sunshine chemistry, single mom romance, later-in-life love stories, clean kisses, found family, boating life, and thoughtful disability representation through a hero living with ankylosing spondylitis.
Genre: Romance
Lottie
I move to Twin Waves for a fresh start, a photography business, and a better life for my two boys. I do not plan on Justin Spencer. He’s grumpy, quiet, and more at home on his shrimp boat than around people—but my sons adore him. The more time we spend on his dock, the more I see beneath the growls: a tender heart, steady hands, and a man who shows love instead of saying it.
Justin
I don’t do attachments. Not to women, not to families, and definitely not with a body that’s already betraying me. But Lottie and her boys slip past every defense I have. They make my dock feel like home. Lottie sees the pain I hide, the future I’ve already written off, and refuses to believe I’m too broken to love.
Falling for her is easy.
Believing I get to keep her is the hard part.
Escape to Twin Waves, a charming North Carolina beach town on the Crystal Coast, where Bookaholics Anonymous meddles, the marina is full of boats and second chances, and even the grumpiest fisherman can fall hard. Perfect for readers who love small-town rom-coms, grumpy/sunshine chemistry, single mom romance, later-in-life love stories, clean kisses, found family, boating life, and thoughtful disability representation through a hero living with ankylosing spondylitis.
Genre: Romance