Porch Light Season
A widowed baker, a carpenter who fixes porches for free, and one long Georgia summer.
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Denise Whitaker has run her late husband’s bakery on Cleveland Avenue for three years without taking a day off. When Marcus Hale shows up to rebuild the sagging porch next door, he starts fixing hers too, one board at a time, and he won’t take her money. Porch Light Season is a slow-burn romance about grief, pound cake, stubborn pride and the kind of man who shows up. Four chapters that stay warm long after the lights go out.
Denise heard the timer before she heard the knock, which was how most of her mornings went. The cinnamon rolls came out first, then the coffee, then whatever the day wanted from her. It was six in the morning on Cleveland Avenue and already warm enough to make the butter sweat. Her husband had set that timer to go off twice, a short beep and then a long one, because he said the second beep was for the baker and the first was for the bread. Three years after the funeral she still waited for both.
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Maya Bellamy
I taught middle-school choir in DeKalb County for nine years, and I still hum when I write. My books are set in the Atlanta I grew up in: Sunday dinners that run long, porches where people say the true thing after dark, and neighbors who know your business before you do. I write slow-burn romance about grown people with jobs, bills and family opinions. Nobody in my books falls for a stranger at an airport. They fall for the person who shows up with a casserole and a ladder. I live in East Point with my husband, my mother-in-law and a very loud beagle named Deacon.
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