A Kiss at Morgan's Bay — Abigail Padgett

At the moment, Darcy Flannigan isn't thinking about love at all. At least not positively. Fleeing a relationship she calls "The Big Mistake," she's reciting mantras from self-help manuals as she heads to a forgotten little California beach village called Morgan's Bay. Her plan is to hide out with an ancient great-aunt she only met once as a child. She'll recoup. She'll restart her life on her own terms! Darcy has no idea what propelled her to kiss an ex-Marine named Sal she doesn't really know in the dark beside a broken carousel ostrich, and wishes it had never happened. But it did, and none of her self-help mantras even come close to handling the avalanche of feelings she's SO not ready for. The timing's rotten and it's clear that he's nothing but more trouble. So why does the memory of that kiss keep haunting her? A Kiss at Morgan's Bay is a contemporary novella-length introduction to the Morgan's Bay romantic suspense series.