For twenty years, Seth Kincaid has kept his visits to his home town brief. He’s not avoiding January Howe, exactly—he’s giving his high school girlfriend space. But that distance evaporates when she takes over her family’s marina for the summer. Which means every time he flies his floatplane into the harbour, she’s there, and the temptation to fall into her sunny smile and forget about the past is stronger than ever. He can’t resist lending a hand, though. Not when she needs the help.

January has a lot on her plate. She’s temporarily raising her niece and nephew while her sister is overseas, and running the family business, too. The last thing she needs is the dangerous risk of pretending a fling with Seth could be simple. Except the grown man version of the boy she once dated is…perfectly easy. He helps with the kids, no questions asked, and then once they’re asleep, satisfies her in ways her eighteen-year-old self couldn’t have imagined.

But two decades of distance is a shadow layered on top of complicated, long-ago memories.

Whatever this temporary magic spell they are under, it can only be for the summer. Any chance of something else between them disintegrated the day Seth joined the Air Force—and broke her teenage heart.

US paperbacks: Hot Guy cover | Discreet cover
UK paperbacks: Hot Guy cover | Discreet cover
Canada paperbacks: Hot Guy cover | Discreet cover

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Audiobook release date: May 14, 2024. Click here to get an email notification when the audiobook goes live!

Explore all the other stories set in Pine Harbour here

  • A character has an abortion in the past (not traumatic). A family member’s past infidelity creates conflict. Financial worry and parenting/guardianship stress are recurring themes.

  • Seth and January have a playlist and a five year bonus epilogue! Click here to get a copy of “Ten Year Plan” delivered straight to your inbox, or read it online: https://www.zoeyork.com/fearless-at-heart-bonus-content

    Also on that page is the Spotify playlist I listened to while writing Seth and January’s stories!

This is the fourth book in the Kincaids of Pine Harbour series. Also available: Reckless at Heart, Fierce at Heart, and Wild at Heart. Rebel at Heart is the fifth and final book, now available for pre-order for April 2023.