Sandy Bay is a quintessential New England coastal town, with charming homes and flowering gardens. The kind of place where everyone knows your name. A place for bees and love to thrive.
Claire Gray never settles anywhere for long. Even her job as a first-grade teacher is temporary, like her boyfriends. Her passion for honey bees is the only constant. While attending a lecture about the importance of saving the pollinators, she bumps into the one parent who penetrates her cold-shoulder actSam Roberts. The single dad disrupts her evening with his sarcastic banter and playful smile, warming her lonely heart. Afraid of being hurt again, and knowing her future may not include Sandy Bay, she ignores the sparks of attraction.
Bar owner and guardian to his seven-year-old nephew Noah, Sam Roberts doesnt date. After losing his sister to cancer, hes grieving and looking after his family as best he can. But working full-time and raising Noah isnt easy. After dropping the boy at camp, he drives by Claires house and finds it a smoldering mess from a lightning strike the previous night. The easy-to-tease woman is wandering around, carrying crates of honey and oblivious to the destruction, and he does what any good neighbor would dohe steps in to help.
The more Sam gets to know Claire, who cares more for her bees than herself, the more irresistible she becomes. He discovers whats missing in both their lives but realizes the last thing Noah needs is to lose another mom, a role Claire easily fills. What would his sister think?
Genre: Romance
Claire Gray never settles anywhere for long. Even her job as a first-grade teacher is temporary, like her boyfriends. Her passion for honey bees is the only constant. While attending a lecture about the importance of saving the pollinators, she bumps into the one parent who penetrates her cold-shoulder actSam Roberts. The single dad disrupts her evening with his sarcastic banter and playful smile, warming her lonely heart. Afraid of being hurt again, and knowing her future may not include Sandy Bay, she ignores the sparks of attraction.
Bar owner and guardian to his seven-year-old nephew Noah, Sam Roberts doesnt date. After losing his sister to cancer, hes grieving and looking after his family as best he can. But working full-time and raising Noah isnt easy. After dropping the boy at camp, he drives by Claires house and finds it a smoldering mess from a lightning strike the previous night. The easy-to-tease woman is wandering around, carrying crates of honey and oblivious to the destruction, and he does what any good neighbor would dohe steps in to help.
The more Sam gets to know Claire, who cares more for her bees than herself, the more irresistible she becomes. He discovers whats missing in both their lives but realizes the last thing Noah needs is to lose another mom, a role Claire easily fills. What would his sister think?
Genre: Romance
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