Love's Little List — A.J. Goode

Melissa has been living in a fog since her divorce. She stays busy with her teaching job and her new role as a single mom, but now she is dreading the long, lonely summer when her children leave to spend an entire month with their father. When Dan, her ex-husband's best friend, steps in and convinces her to make up a to-do list of new things to try together during the long and lonely month, she realizes that it is time to to take control of her own life once more. And as their friendship blooms into something more, Melissa has to decide if she's ready to trust her heart and take a chance on falling in love again. This 18,000-word novella is a prequel to the rest of the Beach Haven series, taking place about ten years before the events of Her House Divided. *** Welcome to Beach Haven, a tourist town where everyone finds love and no one stays a stranger for long. Each book in this series tells its own tale of romance with a different cast of characters, although a few favorites may stroll through each other's stories from time to time.