The Keeper's Light

One man has never stayed anywhere. The other has never dared to ask. A lighthouse is waiting for both.

Lowell Frye is a careful bank officer with a stammer, a ledger of every kindness he has ever been shown, and one rule: never say what you cannot secure. Toby Reed is a drifter carpenter who has not unpacked a box in twenty-seven years. When Toby climbs Greer's Point Light to save a tower no one has kept since 1986, Lowell makes a terrible risk of a loan, and a worse one of his heart.

Then a developer wants the light, a town has to decide what it is for, and a secret hidden behind a false wall reveals who the last keeper really was. A storm. A lens a hundred and seventy years old. And one word, said at last, that no lamp can say for you.

Slow burn. Small town. Found family. A stammer, a lighthouse, and a guaranteed happy ending. A steamy (not explicit) M/M small-town romance. Book 6 and finale of the Juniper Falls series, which can be read as a standalone.

Includes: a gentle drifter who always packs the truck, a banker who counts everything, a ninety-four-year-old letter, a town that answers with coffee cups, an eleven-year-old apprentice with a hard hat, one very good dog.