There’s no place to fall in love like the place you left your heart Welcome to Honeymoon Harbor, the brand-new, long-awaited series by beloved New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross, where unforgettable characters come face-to-face with the kind of love that grabs your heart and never lets go. Working as a Las Vegas concierge, Brianna Mannion is an expert at making other people’s wishes come true. It’s satisfying work, but a visit home to scenic Honeymoon Harbor turns into a permanent stay when she’s reminded of everything she’s missing: the idyllic small-town charm; the old Victorian house she’d always coveted; and Seth Harper, her best friend’s widower and the neighborhood boy she once crushed on—hard. After years spent serving others, maybe Brianna’s finally ready to chase dreams of her own. Since losing his wife, Seth has kept busy running the Harper family’s renovation business and flying way under the social radar. But when Brianna hires him to convert her aging dream home into a romantic B and B, working together presents a heart-stopping temptation Seth never saw coming. With guilt and grief his only companions for so long, he’ll have to step out of the past long enough to recognize the beautiful life Brianna and he could build together. "Ross's Shelter Bay series spotlights her talent for blending vibrant characters, congenial smalltown settings, and pressing social issues in a heartwarming contemporary romance." -Booklist "Beautifully descriptive and gently paced, this heartwarmer captures coastal small town flavor perfectly." -Library Journal on Seaglass Winter "It isn't often readers find characters they're willing to spend a weekend with. However that's exactly what Ross accomplishes...enveloping the reader in the lives of two endearing, albeit flawed, characters." -RT Book Reviews on The Homecoming "Ross is in top form...plenty of sex and secrets to keep readers captivated." -Publishers Weekly on Blue Bayou "Skillful and satisfying... With its emotional depth, [River Road] will appeal to Nora Roberts fans." -Booklist "A fastpaced novel about romantic relationships [and] parentchild relationships.... The narrative voice has a humor and rhythm that is fun to read...witty, kind, and meaningful." -Kirkus Reviews on Seaglass Winter New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author JoAnn Ross has been published in twenty-seven countries. A member of Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of bestselling authors, JoAnn lives with her husband and three rescued dogs — who pretty much rule the house — in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her on the web at www.joannross.com. Herons Landing By JoAnn Ross Harlequin Enterprises Limited Copyright © 2018 JoAnn Ross All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-335-94935-6 CHAPTER 1 Seth Harper was spending a Sunday spring afternoon detailing his wife's Rallye Red Honda Civic when he learned that she'd been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Despite the Pacific Northwest's reputation for unrelenting rain, the sun was shining so brightly that the Army notification officers — a man and a woman in dark blue uniforms and black shoes spit-shined to a mirror gloss — had been wearing shades. Or maybe, Seth considered, as they'd approached the driveway in what appeared to be slow motion, they would've worn them anyway. Like armor, providing emotional distance from the poor bastard whose life they were about to blow to smithereens. At the one survivor grief meeting he'd later attended (only to get his fretting mother off his back), he'd heard stories from other spouses who'd experienced a sudden, painful jolt of loss before their official notice. Seth hadn't received any advance warning. Which was why, at first, the officers' words had been an incomprehensible buzz in his ears. Like distant radio static. Zoe couldn't be dead. His wife wasn't a combat soldier. She was an Army surgical nurse, working in a heavily protected military base hospital, who'd be returning to civilian life in two weeks. Seth still had a bunch of stuff on his homecoming punch list to do. After buffing the wax off the Civic's hood and shining up the chrome wheels, his next project was to paint the walls white in the nursery he'd added on to their Folk Victorian cottage for the baby they'd be making. She'd begun talking a lot about baby stuff early in her deployment. Although Seth was as clueless as the average guy about a woman's mind, it didn't take Dr. Phil to realize that she was using the plan to start a family as a touchstone. Something to hang on to during their separation. In hours of Skype calls between Honeymoon Harbor and Kabul, they'd discussed the pros and cons of the various names on a list that had grown longer each time they'd talked. While the names remained up in the air, she had decided that whatever their baby's gender, the nursery should be a bright white to counter the Olympic Peninsula's gray skies. She'd also sent him links that he'd dutifully follow