Meet Me at the Beach

Sykes (Payoff Pitch) opens the Seashell Bay series with a tender story that reunites high school sweethearts on the idyllic Maine coast. Lily Doyle loves her life fishing for lobster on Seashell Bay Island. She is relatively content until her old flame, Aiden Flynn, returns to the island to decide whether he wants to sell his land to a developer. Since Lily is not in favor of the development, their reunion is strained. As Aiden starts helping Lily on her lobster boat and ends up staying longer than originally planned, he and Lily develop an easy truce, and their attraction becomes stronger than ever before. But Aiden can’t picture staying on the island he was so desperate to leave, even if his professional baseball career is over. As Aiden and Lily take a chance on their romance, neither knows whether it will be fleeting or turn into forever. Their intense romance is sensuous and moving, with a perfect smalltown setting. Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency. (Mar.)