A dutiful Amish daughter. A coastal craftsman who reads houses with his hands. A salt-grey ruin on the Maine shore.

The great-aunt who abandoned the Plain community decades ago just left Miriam everything. Miriam Stoltzfus has spent twenty-three years being the obedient daughter, the steady answer to her family’s oldest shame. So when a worldly lawyer delivers the deed to a dilapidated Victorian beach house in Tidewater Cove, Maine, her Bishop’s instructions are simple: assess it, sell it, and bring the money home before summer’s end.

Then she meets Silas Beck. A coastal craftsman and the grandson of a man who left the Amish for love, Silas reads the broken house through his hands and offers to rebuild it, settling his fee only when it sells. Working side by side through the long, bright evenings, trading hand-cut joints for old German hymns in the warm salt air, Miriam begins to feel something she was never permitted to want.

When a midnight fire guts the back wing, the Bishop’s judgment is final. Leave the ruins. Come home. A developer is already circling with an offer to bulldoze what remains.

Then Silas puts the deed in her name alone, and gives Miriam the one thing her world never has. A choice. Now she must decide whether faith means staying inside the lines she was raised in, or building a sanctuary of her own on the shore between two worlds.

For readers of Clean Amish romance who loves beach house coastal love stories with a summer vibe.

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