Stories of Soft Resolve Series
A little taste of the stories...
Paper Hearts & Late December
Winter brings quiet footsteps, a spark in the dark, and the kind of love that won’t be ignored.
Dunnara is a village of frost-laced stone paths and ivy-cloaked cottages, tucked in the wooded hills beyond Brannock Bay. In winter, it hums with old traditions, quiet kindness, and the kind of stillness that invites love to bloom.
Elena Holling first meets Miles Quinn at her aunt’s funeral, a quiet man with kind eyes and a seven-year-old son by his side. She doesn’t expect to see him again.
But when Elena returns to Dunnara to settle the estate, she runs into Miles once more. A widowed stonemason with a gentle heart and a life shaped by grief, Miles lives just down the lane. Elena, a guest lecturer and archivist who’s spent years holding out for the right person, begins to wonder if she’s finally found someone worth opening up to.
With help from Clara Whitmore, Elena’s college friend and a Brannock Bay local, Elena begins to see Dunnara not just as a place to pass through, but as a place to belong. As snow blankets the ivy-draped cottages and old traditions stir to life, Elena and Miles must decide whether love can arrive not with fireworks, but with warmth, steadiness, and the kind of grace only winter can offer.
Whispers Between the Waves
Love returns where the tide remembers.
A coastal romance about love lost, letters found, and the courage to return.
Clara Whitmore swore she’d never go back to Brannock Bay. But when a letter from the town’s restoration committee calls her home to repair its aging lighthouse, she finds more than cracked beams and faded paint, she finds Rowan Hale, the man she left behind without a goodbye.
Ten years apart. One hidden letter. And a town that remembers everything.
As Clara and Rowan rebuild the lighthouse, they uncover buried truths, unfinished murals, and the kind of love that doesn’t fade, it waits. But when Clara’s past calls her back to San Francisco with promises of prestige, she must choose between the life she built and the one she never stopped dreaming of.
Whispers Between the Waves is a sweeping, emotional romance set against the salt-kissed shores of Brannock Bay, perfect for readers who believe that home isn’t a place, but a feeling you fight to keep.
The Bella Tapes
Secrets recorded. Hearts exposed. Love finds its voice in the most unexpected places.
What if love left behind a voice? While restoring the lighthouse archives, Rowan and Clara uncover a set of tapes recorded by Elias Hale, Rowan’s father. One tape, dated shortly before Elias’s death, is addressed not to Rowan, but to Bella, Rowan’s mother. It’s raw, intimate, and quietly devastating. A final message from a man who knew the tides better than his own heart.
“If I go first, don’t let grief make you small. Love fully, Bella. Even if it’s not me. Even if it’s someone who doesn’t know the tides like I do. You deserve a life that sings.”
The tape becomes the emotional fulcrum of the story. When Rowan and Clara share it with Bella, it opens a door she had quietly closed for decades. Now in her sixties, Bella meets Jack Tate, a visiting folklorist drawn to Brannock Bay’s oral history and the quiet poetry of its radio waves. He’s gentle, curious, and reverent of her past. The tape gives Bella permission to explore this new connection, not as a betrayal of Elias, but as a continuation of the love he believed she deserved.
Rosewater Resolve
Promises made, promises kept, and the kind of love that refuses to fade.
Some love stories don’t need to be rediscovered. They just need room to breathe. Ava Langley and Mason Reed were once inseparable, two kids with big plans and hearts too full to know what to do with them. College scattered them. Careers kept them moving. They lost touch, not out of anger, but out of inertia. Now, in their late twenties, they meet again at a funeral in Brannock Bay. The town feels distant and familiar all at once, like a place they never meant to leave for good.
Ava’s working in crisis response. Mason’s chasing marine data and grant deadlines. Both are still finding their footing. But something about this reunion, quiet, unplanned, and steeped in shared memory, makes them wonder if the version of themselves they’ve been searching for was always waiting back home.
“I thought I’d outgrow this place. Turns out, it’s the only part of me that still fits.”
