SECRETS OF MARCO ISLAND (Book 5: The Studio on Marco Island)

Jess Scott has spent nineteen years believing she knows exactly how her love story will end.

Trent has been part of her life for almost two decades, and despite their complicated relationship, Jess has always imagined that one day he would finally make their future official. But after years of waiting, uncertainty, and promises without a date, Jess begins to wonder whether the man she has loved for so long is really the man she is meant to spend her life with.

Then TJ Beanford walks into her world.

An FBI agent with a guarded heart and a complicated past, TJ never expected to become the subject of Jess’s art—or the man who could make her question everything she thought she wanted. In the quiet of her studio, surrounded by sketches and unfinished dreams, Jess discovers a connection with TJ that feels impossible to ignore.

But Trent has returned to Marco Island, and his presence threatens to reopen every wound Jess has tried to close.

As attraction, loyalty, family expectations, and buried secrets collide, Jess must finally choose between the future she has waited nineteen years for and the unexpected love that makes her heart beat differently.

Sometimes the hardest choice is between the life you planned… and the life you never knew you wanted.