For six years, Dot Pennywell has run the Conch Window on the Siesta Key village walk, and for six years Hollis Vance has tied up his charter boat one dock over, bought a single mango cone he never finishes, and needled her about her dying freezer. The whole island has been waiting for one of them to say the real thing. Neither one ever has.

At sixty-three, Dot is a sharp-tongued widow who learned young that the only safe thing is to need nobody. At sixty, Hollis is a quiet widower who has spent four years buying a cone instead of asking for the woman. Then a runaway grandson lands on Dot's doorstep off a bus from Ohio, the hottest August on record kills the freezer Hollis always warned her about, and a developer in dry shoes starts squeezing the whole working waterfront off the map.

Two people who decided their best years were behind them are about to find out the sweetest season might be the one still coming.

A sweet, clean, slow-burn second-chance romance with no spice, a runaway kid worth saving, one very stubborn matchmaking widow, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Welcome back to Siesta Key, where every book is a new couple, a fresh start, and a happy ending.