The Man at the back of the Church
(2026)(The first book in the Harrow Bay series)
A novel by Cora J Riley
She slept with him the night before he left. She's never forgiven either of them for it.
Sloane Ferreira has run the only bar in Harrow Bay for twelve years. She's buried her father, held this town together through two bad winters, and built a life out of a leaking building and a lot of nerve.
Then Aksel Rask dies, and his eldest son comes back after ten years away — with a jaw like a closed door and every lease in this town in his pocket. Including hers.
Ivor Rask has one thing to do and eight weeks to do it. He has no intention of explaining himself to anyone, least of all the woman who won't look at him across her own bar.
But Harrow Bay has been telling itself a story about the night Sloane's father drowned, and there's a woman in this parish who knows it isn't true.
Everyone in that town is about to find out what was kept from them — and who kept it.
Small-town coastal romance. Second-chance love, forced proximity, one storeroom, a decade of unfinished business, and a secret that takes the roof off.
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