Sweet · Clean · Later-in-Life Romance

Come home to Larkspur Harbor

Heartwarming, kisses-only love stories about sisters, second chances and an old inn on the coast of Maine, where it is never too late to begin again.

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Kisses onlySweet, never steamy
No profanityClean language, every page
Heroines over fiftyFull lives, second chances
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The series

The Larkspur Harbor Books

Three sisters. One old inn on the coast of Maine. And a year that changes everything. Each book follows a new couple to their own happily-ever-after, while the sisters, their late mother's letters and a whole town full of good neighbors carry on from book to book.

BOOK1

Book One · Winter

The Inn at Larkspur Harbor

Claire, 61 & Jack, 63

Three sisters. One year. And the old inn on the coast of Maine their mother never stopped loving.

At sixty-one, Boston trusts lawyer Claire Chadbourne has made a career of reading the fine print, so she knows exactly what her late mother is asking. To inherit the Larkspur Inn, Claire and her two very different sisters must run it together for one full year. There is a tax bill due in April that none of them can pay, a front porch falling down, and a letter in her mother's handwriting with one puzzling instruction: ask about the larkspur.

Jack Ferrell is the widowed carpenter her mother hired to finish that porch. He is quiet, patient and loyal to a fault, and he plainly knows more about her mother's last years than Claire does. He is also the last thing she needs. Claire came to Maine to keep the terms on paper, sell in a year and go home.

But a Maine winter has plans of its own. A blizzard and a dead boiler. A corporate buyer with a generous offer. A town that remembers the Chadbourne girls far better than they remember it. And every morning at six-thirty, coffee on the porch with a man who has started building her mother's steps as if he means them to last.

Second chance
Widowed carpenter
Three sisters
A mother's letters

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BOOK2

Book Two · February

Sweethearts at Larkspur Harbor

Libby, 57 & Wes, 58

One Valentine's supper. One old fiddle tune. And thirty-five years of "not yet."

At fifty-seven, widowed music teacher Libby Chadbourne Dunmore has answered "later" to every hard question since she was twenty-two. She came back to her late mother's inn in Maine for one week. Then, on a bitter February night, she drives to the end of the Point Road and hears a fiddle through a window, playing a reel she once played piano under, one summer long ago. The fiddler still rushes the turn. And he stops four bars short of the end.

Wes Hatch spent thirty-three years at sea. Now the retired captain has bought a plain house at the end of the Point, cooks like he's running a ship's galley and plays alone every night at ten. He can talk to anybody in town, except the one woman who once told him "not yet." And he has never learned how to stay anywhere.

A week before Valentine's Day, the town's Sweetheart Supper loses the woman who has run it for forty years, and Libby and Wes are drafted to run it together. The supper keeps twenty-three old and widowed households in heating oil until spring, and this year it must raise more than ever. A rich man's check is against the rules. And a ship waiting in Halifax could take the captain back to sea before the ice is off the harbor.

First love
Retired sea captain
Widow & widower
Valentine's supper

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Book Three · June

The Wedding Kitchen at Larkspur Harbor

Tess, 52 & Theo, 54

Her daughter's wedding. A hundred and twenty guests. And one small lie.

At fifty-two, Tess Chadbourne is laid off, back in her late mother's inn on the coast of Maine, and about to cook her only daughter's wedding supper for a hundred and twenty people. She has four weeks, a breakfast stove, four thousand dollars and a lot of nerve. Then her ex-husband's new wife offers a Portland caterer and a checkbook, and Tess hears herself say it: she isn't cooking alone. She's cooking with her partner.

Theo Marchand once ran one of the most talked-about kitchens in Portland. Now he cooks other people's wedding menus in Camden under his company's name, weighs everything to the gram and never puts his own name on a plate. He needs a second cook for two June weddings. She needs a professional, his refrigerated van and a man who will stand beside her at the tasting looking fond. His one condition, in square capitals: no cameras, not my name.

It is a bargain between two professionals. It is not supposed to involve her mother's wooden salt box, his grandmother's sugar pie, or the way he watches her salt a pot as if she's angry at it. But the inn needs bookings before Labor Day, Tess has always known how to sell a good story, and the best story she knows is his.

Business deal turned love
Chef hero
Mother of the bride
Summer wedding

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Book Four · July

Fireworks at Larkspur Harbor

Rosie, 53 & Joe, 56

Her bakery. His fireworks. One month to save what's left.

At fifty-three, Rosie Albee has baked on Front Street for half her life, in the bakery her grandmother opened in 1951. She feeds the whole town and has never let anyone give her anything back, not since the man she married walked off with half of everything she had. Every Fourth of July for twenty-two years she has left a note on Joe Haskell's windshield telling him he's shooting the fireworks from the wrong float. This year, at twenty to three in the morning, she's right.

Joe is the town's electrician, the captain of the volunteer fire company, and the man who has come to her counter for coffee at five past six most mornings for sixteen years. He will do anything for anyone except say out loud what he wants. So he walks out of the smoke with her grandmother's recipe box under his arm, then tries to give her everything else: his house, the firehouse kitchen, his nights inside her burned walls.

But the building is closed, a cash buyer is waiting, and by the end of the month Rosie needs money she doesn't have. A safe job in someone else's kitchen is on the table. A letter has waited in Gran's recipe box since 1965. And a gift is the one thing Rosie has never known how to take.

Friends to lovers
Small-town bakery
Firefighter hero
Fourth of July

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The town

Welcome to Larkspur Harbor

A small harbor town on the coast of Maine, with lobster boats in the harbor, a church steeple on the hill and an inn whose porch light has never once gone out.

The Larkspur Inn

A white captain's house on Harbor Hill, with a widow's walk, a wide front porch and twenty-two breakfasts every summer morning.

Albee's Bakery

The green door on Front Street. Rosie has the town's news before the bread is out of the oven.

The Tide Line Diner

Chowder on Fridays, coffee all day, and Bev knows everything first.

Gull Rock Light

A mile out along the ledge, where an old friend keeps the coffee hot on Sunday mornings.

Reader club

The Larkspur Porch

Molly's reader club. Pull up a rocking chair on the porch of the Larkspur Inn and hear the news first.

A free Larkspur Harbor Christmas novella for members
Early word on new books and special prices
Recipes from the inn kitchen and Albee's Bakery
Letters from Larkspur Harbor, about twice a month
No spam, and you can leave any time

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About the author

Hello, I'm Molly

Molly Merriam writes sweet, clean later-in-life romance set in small coastal towns: stories about sisters, second chances, good neighbors and the kind of love that is worth the wait. Her books have no profanity, nothing behind closed doors, and always a happily-ever-after.

In every book you will find:

A small coastal town you will want to visit
Heroines over fifty with full, busy lives
Kisses only, no profanity, nothing behind closed doors
Friends, sisters and neighbors who show up
A happily-ever-after you can count on

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Questions Readers Ask

Are the books clean?

Yes. Every Molly Merriam book is kisses only, with no profanity and nothing behind closed doors. The love stories are real and grown-up, and they stay on the porch.

Do I need to read them in order?

Each book has its own couple and its own happily-ever-after, so any of them can be read alone. The sisters' story and their mother's letters run through the whole series, so the best way is to start with The Inn at Larkspur Harbor.

Can I read them with Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. The Larkspur Harbor ebooks are in Kindle Unlimited, so members can read the whole series at no extra cost.

Are there print editions?

Yes. The books come in paperback and hardcover, and large print editions are on the way.

Where is Larkspur Harbor?

Larkspur Harbor is a made-up town, but it is built from the real harbor villages of the Maine coast. You will know it the moment you see the inn on the hill.

How can I get in touch?

Write to Molly at the address below. Questions, kind words and favorite recipes are all welcome.

Say hello

Write to Molly

Questions about the books, kind words or a favorite recipe from your own kitchen: all are welcome.

contact@mollymerriam.com

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