Island View Inn

A stormy night. A blinding headlight. One wrong turn that changes everything…

When hospitality grad Kelly McKenzie finally comes home to northern Michigan's Island View Inn, she imagines fresh paint, new linens, and a thriving family business on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay. Instead, she finds an aging Victorian inn buried in debt—and her mother quietly considering selling it to the last man Kelly ever wanted to see again.

Jack Markham was once the local bad boy who taught Kelly to drive and broke her teenage heart. Now he's a celebrated New York chef, newly divorced, and back in Settlers Bay with a bold plan: buy into Island View Inn, transform the restaurant, and rebuild his life where it all began. A late-night accident on the inn's rain-slicked lane throws Jack—literally—back into Kelly's path, reopening old wounds and very inconvenient sparks.

Forced into a fragile business partnership, Kelly and Jack clash over everything from menus to floor plans as they race to renovate before tourist season. Between power tools and tasting menus, they must navigate small-town gossip, Jack's adorable twin daughters, a widowed mother with a budding romance of her own, and the bittersweet secrets hidden in the inn's shadowed halls.

As summer approaches and the bay shimmers beyond the wraparound porch, Kelly has to decide what she's really fighting for: her family's legacy, the inn's future…or the second chance at love she never saw coming.

Island View Inn is a warm, emotionally rich contemporary romance about homecoming, healing, and the breathtaking risk of opening your heart one more time...