Maeve Aldrich returns to the small Maine harbor town she left twelve years ago with one goal: settle her grandmother’s estate and leave again as quickly as possible. Her plan is simple—four days, five if the paperwork runs long. But Heron Cove remembers her. The cottage still faces the harbor the way it always did. The garden waits quietly beneath the fall soil. And the kitchen table her grandmother left behind carries a past Maeve never fully resolved. Especially when the table is meant for Callum Macrae—the harbor master she once loved and the one person she never truly said goodbye to. As Maeve sorts through her grandmother’s belongings and the town that shaped her childhood, she begins to realize that leaving a place is not the same thing as letting it go. And sometimes the life you built somewhere else is not the life that is waiting for you. Set against the quiet rhythms of the Maine coast, The Light Side of the Harbor is a reflective novel about returning home, unfinished conversations, and the quiet ways people find their way back to the lives they were meant to live.
