The Float Fiasco

Three hundred and fifty pinwheels. One clipboard. Zero professional detachment.

Mia Andrews came back to Cliffhaven to help her mother. She stayed to open a design studio. She did *not* stay to build a parade float so ambitious it might require Coast Guard intervention.

Lucas Ryan *is* the Coast Guard intervention.

Three things Mia knows for certain:

• The float needs to be spectacular.
• "Just one small improvement" has never once meant what she thinks it means.
• She is absolutely, definitely not developing feelings for the safety coordinator who keeps showing up with coffee and correct opinions about bolt placement.

Lucas knows one thing: his patrol route has been drifting toward Harbor Street for months, and the clipboard stopped being his excuse approximately three weeks ago.

In a small Maine harbor town where the baker delivers opinions with scones and the harbormaster predicts weather with his elbow, a parade float is never just a parade float. Especially when the designer and the safety coordinator finally admit that the blueprints were never the real attraction.

The Float Fiasco is a sweet, small-town romantic comedy about ambitious plans, stubborn rule-followers, and the town that loves to watch them fall.