The Long Tack - August Field

He came to measure the boatyard. He stayed for the boatbuilder.

Marine surveyor Kit Ferris has eight weeks to put a fair-market value on Flaherty & Sons Boatworks - the seventy-five-year-old wooden boatyard three grieving brothers are fighting over.

Eldest brother Nate Flaherty is grumpy, grieving, and gorgeous, and the will says the yard can only be saved at Kit’s surveyed price. When his rental falls through on day one, Kit ends up lodging in the boatyard’s own loft - ten yards and one flight of stairs from the grumpiest, most gorgeous man in Maine.

A grumpy/sunshine, forced-proximity, small-town Maine romance about the difference between what something’s worth and what it’s for - with open-door heat, small-town heart, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.