The Lighthouse Secret: A Coastal Romantic Suspense Novel

She came to sell a lighthouse. She never expected to inherit its secrets.

Estate attorney Elise Whitlock arrives in the quiet coastal town of Merrow Bay with a simple plan: settle her reclusive great-uncle’s estate, sell the crumbling lighthouse he left behind, and return to Boston within five days.

Then she learns his death may not have been an accident.

When someone breaks into the lighthouse searching for something hidden decades earlier, Elise discovers a tarnished brass key and a century-old journal pointing to a mystery buried beneath the lighthouse itself. Whatever her great-uncle uncovered in his final days, someone is determined to keep it buried.

With the help of Reid Carter, the town’s quiet harbor master and former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Elise follows a trail of forgotten journals, lost shipwrecks, family secrets, and hidden passages stretching back to Prohibition-era New England. But every clue draws them closer to a truth powerful enough to reshape Merrow Bay’s history-and dangerous enough to cost them everything.

As storms gather along the coast and the search grows more perilous, Elise finds herself torn between the orderly life she left behind and the unexpected home, loyal friends, and impossible love waiting beneath the lighthouse’s beam.

Perfect for readers who love page-turning mysteries, unforgettable small towns, slow-burn romance, and stories filled with heart, humor, and hope, The Lighthouse Secret is an atmospheric romantic suspense novel about finding the courage to trust, the family we choose, and the extraordinary secrets hidden in ordinary places.