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Star of Wonder
(2026)(The third book in the Star Harbor Second Chance Christmas Romance series)
A novel by Nina Potter
A bakery at 4 AM. A harbor in the dark. And two people who've been sharing the same dawn for years without saying why.
Josie Pelletier is forty-seven, owns the bakery on Main Street, and has been Star Harbor's sunshine for fifteen years. She runs the Cookie Walk, supplies the Friday dinners at the Harborlight, and shows up with pastries when someone's world falls apart. Everybody counts on Josie. Nobody has noticed that counting on her is all they do.
Eli Hart is fifty-three, the harbormaster, and the quietest man in any room. His wife died four years ago. He kept her mugs on the shelf, her recipes in the drawer, and her Cookie Walk running. He kept the harbor. He kept the silence. He called it loyalty.
When the Valentine's Day star restoration fundraiser puts them on the same committee, Eli starts arriving at the bakery before dawn. He brings coffee. He fixes the back door hinge without mentioning it. He doesn't ask for a scone.
That's the problem. Josie has spent her whole life being needed. Eli doesn't need her bakery, her sunshine, or her shortbread. He just keeps showing up.
She doesn't know what to do with a man who wants the woman behind the counter instead of what's on it. He doesn't know how to love someone new without letting go of someone lost. And Star Harbor — which has opinions, a betting book, and absolutely no patience left — is not going to let them figure it out quietly.
The book for readers who fell in love with Star Harbor at Christmas, stayed for New Year's, and aren't leaving until the last stubborn couple in town admits what the bakery lights and the harbor lights have been saying since 4 AM.
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Widower Finds Love Again • Grumpy-Sunshine • Later-in-Life Romance (47 & 53) • Small-Town Valentine's Day • Baker Heroine • Found Family • Community Romance
Data Block: Heat Level: Closed Door Tone: Warm and Emotional Series: Star Harbor Christmas, Book 3 of 6 (Interconnected Standalones) Ending: HEA POV: Dual, Third Person Content Notes: Widower (wife's death off-page, four years prior), caretaker fatigue, later in life
Genre: Romance
Josie Pelletier is forty-seven, owns the bakery on Main Street, and has been Star Harbor's sunshine for fifteen years. She runs the Cookie Walk, supplies the Friday dinners at the Harborlight, and shows up with pastries when someone's world falls apart. Everybody counts on Josie. Nobody has noticed that counting on her is all they do.
Eli Hart is fifty-three, the harbormaster, and the quietest man in any room. His wife died four years ago. He kept her mugs on the shelf, her recipes in the drawer, and her Cookie Walk running. He kept the harbor. He kept the silence. He called it loyalty.
When the Valentine's Day star restoration fundraiser puts them on the same committee, Eli starts arriving at the bakery before dawn. He brings coffee. He fixes the back door hinge without mentioning it. He doesn't ask for a scone.
That's the problem. Josie has spent her whole life being needed. Eli doesn't need her bakery, her sunshine, or her shortbread. He just keeps showing up.
She doesn't know what to do with a man who wants the woman behind the counter instead of what's on it. He doesn't know how to love someone new without letting go of someone lost. And Star Harbor — which has opinions, a betting book, and absolutely no patience left — is not going to let them figure it out quietly.
The book for readers who fell in love with Star Harbor at Christmas, stayed for New Year's, and aren't leaving until the last stubborn couple in town admits what the bakery lights and the harbor lights have been saying since 4 AM.
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Widower Finds Love Again • Grumpy-Sunshine • Later-in-Life Romance (47 & 53) • Small-Town Valentine's Day • Baker Heroine • Found Family • Community Romance
Data Block: Heat Level: Closed Door Tone: Warm and Emotional Series: Star Harbor Christmas, Book 3 of 6 (Interconnected Standalones) Ending: HEA POV: Dual, Third Person Content Notes: Widower (wife's death off-page, four years prior), caretaker fatigue, later in life
Genre: Romance