From USA Today bestselling author, J.L. Berg, comes a second-chance love story that will own your heart until the very end. Death is easy. Surviving it? That’s the hard part. Dr. Jake Jameson knows this all too well. Losing his mother at the age of eighteen, he walks away from his small hometown and the painful memories it holds, vowing to never return again. Twelve years later, he finds himself driving back down the coast of North Carolina. When his father leaves him a small medical practice, he has no choice but to heed the call until he can find someone else to take it off his hands. But coming back home means facing everything he left behind, including the one woman who might make it impossible to leave again. Molly McIntyre has spent her entire life in one town. Taking over her parents’ small inn, she’s settled into a quiet, happy life. But all of that comes to an abrupt halt when Jake shows up at her door in need of a place to stay. Molly loathes everything about this man, but she can’t find it in her heart to refuse his request. After over a decade, these former lovers quickly discover what once burned brightly between them has only grown in their time apart. Soon they must decide if the choices they’ve made have led them back to each other for a second chance or one final goodbye.

From USA Today bestselling author J.L. Berg comes a new By the Bay stand-alone novel... I am a man adrift... Born the son of a fisherman, I had a predestined purpose. The ocean was my life until one fateful day... it wasn’t. After an accident at sea ripped away my love of the water, I was left with nothing. Until she arrived in our sleepy town. Cora Carpenter was my nurse those first few days after they’d dragged me from the water. She’d seen me at my worst. She’d been there when I lost my arm. When I lost everything. That was three years ago. Now she’s everywhere and I can’t get her out of my head. I see pain in her eyes. The kind of pain that leaves deep scars. I also see truth and beauty and passion. After all these years of wandering this little island town in search of something, I think I may have found exactly what I’m looking for. But am I what she needs? Can two broken hearts make a whole?

From USA Today bestselling author J.L. Berg comes a brand new By the Bay stand-alone novel... Everything was going according to plan... After years of working my way up the corporate ladder, it was finally my time to shine. I was about to receive the promotion of a lifetime. But just like that, my life was destroyed with a single career crushing email. Now, I am headed back home to North Carolina, under the ruse of an extended vacation to help run the family inn while my sister is on maternity leave. After all, what is family for? Plus, a few days at the beach could definitely help uncomplicate this crazy life of mine. Enter Aiden Fisher. Aiden is a guest at my sister’s inn. He’s wicked hot, a huge flirt and has one of the sexiest British accents I’ve ever heard. But beyond all that, I see a darkness in his soul, as if he’s carrying a great weight upon his shoulders. I find myself pushing back my trip home to Florida in hopes that maybe I’ll look into those hazel brown eyes and finally see truth shining back instead of lies. That maybe he’ll stop running and tell me the truth for once. But you know what they say about liars? It takes one to know one and I’ve been telling the biggest lie of all – I’ve fallen hopelessly in love with Aiden. And isn’t that the scariest truth of all?

Keep your friends close... And your enemies closer. I knew Leilani Hart was trouble from the minute she stepped foot into our small town. With her big city ideas and hotel heiress reputation, I know she’ll turn our picturesque island into a tacky tourist trap if given the opportunity. She’ll have to go through me first. From our first meeting, we’re like fire and ice, and I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to pin her down and melt some of those frigid layers right off. I’ve never believed in love, but for her, I just might be willing to risk it all. Even if it means falling... for the enemy.

Passions ignite when a small-town cop falls for the one woman he shouldn’t in this fake dating romance. Living in Ocracoke was a dream come true—until my husband died. I haven't set foot on that island since. It's been five years, and I thought I had moved on. But when my boyfriend suddenly drops to one knee, it’s the only place I want to be. I thought I was there to say goodbye, but I found him instead. Macon Green is an arrogant small-town cop with quite a reputation. When I find his ex-wife publicly humiliating him, I can’t help but intervene. I slide my hand into his, and just like that, we’re dating. It wasn’t supposed to be real. And I definitely wasn’t supposed to stay. Yet, the more we pretend, the more it starts to feel undeniably... right. Perhaps this is where I was supposed to be all along.