"A cottage by the sea is the perfect summer vacation spot for bonding and healing old and new wounds for divorced romance writer, Cassandra Phillips and her sister Eleanor. Gentle breezes and fresh salt air lull them into thinking it’s going to be a quiet relaxing summer, but when a mesmerizing, blue-eyed Carl McGee moves into the cottage next door, Cassie’s resolve to never fall for a man again begins to dissolve. When rumors of a drug-smuggling ring along the Carolina coastline surface, there are warning bells that something’s not quite right in paradise and Cassie begins to question who Carl McGee really is. Is he the gentleman that he seems to be or is he a criminal laying low in this little coastal town? Danger and intrigue make this summer read by Glenda Manus a real page-turner." The Melancholy Moon is a stand-alone book in The Southern Grace Series.