Love Stories of the Central Coast - T. Garner Edwards On California's mist-salted edge, love arrives in all its unruly forms, first chances, second chances, and the quiet, everyday courage to keep opening our hearts. In Love Stories of the Central Coast , T. Garner Edwards delivers 17 luminous short stories set in and around Carmel, Monterey Bay, and the broader Central Coast-where rugged coastline and small-town intimacy become partners in every affair of the heart. Ranchers and bakers, artists and old soldiers, grandchildren and grieving spouses all collide with moments that change everything: a pie shared on a bluff, a post-quake kindness that grows into a life, a widow who picks up her late husband's tools and builds something new. These tender, wry, and deeply human pieces are perfect one-sitting reads that linger long after the last page.