Postmarked

She went to Portugal to get in the grapes like Lucy. She never expected someone to light a candle for her.

Tasha Lawrence has spent fifteen years being fine
Fine at the front desk. Fine in the back row of the choir. Fine raising three kids alone after her husband walked out, and after the dark season she still doesn't talk about. Now her youngest has left for college, the house is too quiet, and Tasha can feel the old heaviness waiting at the edge of the bed.

So she does the bravest thing she knows. She gets on the plane.

Her cousin Evon is getting married at a vineyard in Portugal's Douro Valley, at harvest time. Tasha has a gold dress, a promise to tread the grapes like Lucy Ricardo, and absolutely no intention of falling for anyone.

Then there's Tiago. He's a tall, quiet driver from Porto with old-movie manners, who holds a sign for her at the airport and watched I Love Lucy three times before they ever met, just to understand what she wanted. He carries more than luggage: a father lost to the river, and a mother he once spent two years trying to bring back into the light.

Over a harvest of falling into grape vats, rooftop gardens, singing she didn't know she still had in her, and one unforgettable night on the river, Tasha finds a man who isn't afraid of her shadows. But when she gets home to Baltimore and winter closes in, she has to decide whether she can let someone row beside her, or whether she'll send him away for his own good.

Postmarked: Porto is a warm, emotional, later-in-life romance about second chances, found family and the courage to be seen. It's a love story for every woman who has ever opened the blinds when it would have been easier to keep them closed.

Book Four of the Postmarked series. It can be read as a standalone. Closed-door romance with a heartfelt, hopeful ending.