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A harbor safety scare puts Delaney in the headlines-and puts Leah Pike directly in June Mercer's path.
Leah has just been appointed harbormaster, and she is determined to keep Delaney's waterfront steady, functional, and safe. She knows the harbor is more than a scenic backdrop. It is a working system, and one failed gate does not mean the whole town is falling apart.
June Mercer is a regional coastal affairs reporter sent to cover the incident. She wants the truth, not the town's preferred version of it. But the more time she spends watching Leah work, the harder it becomes to reduce the story to a headline.
As public pressure grows, old maintenance decisions surface, and a sudden storm tests the harbor for real, Leah and June are forced to confront what it means to protect something: a town, a reputation, a truth, and eventually each other.
Harbors, Headlines & Holding Fast is a small-town sapphic romance about public scrutiny, quiet competence, complicated truth, and the kind of trust that holds under pressure.
