Heron Cove

Maeve Aldrich returns to the small Maine harbor town she left twelve years ago with one goal: settle her grandmother’s estate and leave again as quickly as possible. Her plan is simple—four days, five if the paperwork runs long. But Heron Cove remembers her. The cottage still faces the harbor the way it always did. The garden waits quietly beneath the fall soil. And the kitchen table her grandmother left behind carries a past Maeve never fully resolved. Especially when the table is meant for Callum Macrae—the harbor master she once loved and the one person she never truly said goodbye to.

A coastal survey wasn't supposed to change anything. Dr. Nora Finch returns to a small harbor town to document a near-shore recovery system no one fully understands. The work is precise. Measurable. Contained. Until it isn't.

Claire Tate came to Heron Cove to assess a building. The abandoned cannery on the waterfront was supposed to be another straightforward preservation report — decades of neglect, structural decline, inevitable demolition. But the building tells a different story. Undocumented repairs. Careful restoration work. Evidence that someone has been quietly keeping the structure alive for years outside the official record.