For fans of Louise Penny's Three Pines — a literary mystery — atmospheric and character-driven — rooted in place, loyalty, and what it costs to belong.Cole Walker came to Hood Canal to build something: a glass and cedar lodge perched above a deep glacial fjord, where giant octopus hunt in the cold depths and orcas pass close enough to hear. He didn't plan to stay. But five summers later, the Lodge has become home — and the people who built it have become his.

For fans of Louise Penny's Three Pines — a literary mystery — atmospheric and character-driven — rooted in place, loyalty, and what it costs to belong.Hood Canal is the only fjord in the contiguous United States—a deep glacial arm of the Pacific beneath Washington's Olympic Mountains, where octopus drift through cold, dark water and orcas pass close enough to hear. The light off the surface changes everything it touches.Cole Walker was an architect who had stopped feeling h...

I crossed a line I never should have crossed… and now I don’t want to go back.When my best friend’s grown son texts me looking for help, I figure it’s because his dad is out of town.Turns out he has something specific in mind. Something I never could’ve seen coming.Quinn wants me to teach him about sex, every raw and sensual thing. He is desperate to improve, and trusts me to show him the way. I mean, I have the experience, but I need to say no. I try to.

WaylonI’m a music manager. I’ve taken the smallest artists and made them soar into superstardom. I’m good at what I do, and I never fail.Except with him. I let him down, and that doesn’t sit right with me.No. I’ll track Justin St. James down and find a way to make him happy and settled.No matter what it takes.JustinI’m so tired of being Justin St. James. Of people invading my space and acting like they own me. Like I owe them for my fame....