About the book
It’s forty feet from the boat shop to the kitchen door. It takes Josie Hale and Mara Voss one whole summer to cross it.
Josie has spent six seasons on Larkspur Lake holding her family’s outfitters together on sheer will: first on the dock, last off it, and quietly covering the shortfall from her own savings so no one has to worry.
Mara lost her city restaurant when the building went dark. Now she has her great-aunt’s failing lakeside restaurant, a walk-in that can’t hold its temperature, and an offer in a drawer with a date on it. She hasn’t decided whether she’s staying. She has decided that no woman with a boat ramp is going to tell her where her tables go.
Then the town needs a supper for three hundred at the Mill: a generator for power, four long tables, and every guest arriving by boat. The kitchen will be Mara’s. The water will be Josie’s. The Committee has one request: please do not argue with the boat schedules.
A deadline in a drawer. A secret in a ledger. Weather in the forecast. And something slow, stubborn, and entirely unplanned crossing that gravel, which neither of them has the nerve to call by its name.
The Sweetest Season is a warm, slow-burn, small-town sapphic romance about capable women, quiet courage, and the terrifying luxury of letting someone in. Expect rivals who become partners, a found family that won’t stay out of it, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
Low heat, nothing explicit on the page. Book 1 of The Larkspur Lake Novels; each book follows a different Hale sibling and reads as a complete standalone.
