JUST ONE MORE THING . 8/12

Dani Akard writes contemporary small-town romance full of laugh out loud chaos.

Her debut novel, Just One More Thing, introduces readers to Blue Crab Bay, a coastal town where privacy is cute in theory. Rare in practice.

She believes there’s nothing more romantic than loving the person who makes you laugh.

When she isn’t writing, Dani is usually at the water’s edge with her husband, two English bulldogs, and entirely too many feelings about fictional people.

Ten years ago, Jake Wheeler told his best friend, Emory Donovan, he loved her.

She said thank you.

Now Emory is back in Blue Crab Bay just long enough to help her grandmother run the town’s doughnut shop while her leg heals. Then she’ll return to her carefully planned life before anything gets complicated.

But Jake Wheeler is back too.

The former NFL quarterback has traded stadium lights for crab boats and dock sunrises, and when Emory walks back into town, he looks at her like she never left.

Between festivals, movie night on The Green, and a town that loves love a little too publicly, the distance Emory swore she’d keep starts to collapse. So does every wall she built to protect herself from the one person she never got over.

She still sleeps in his jersey. He still sends Morse code across the water. And the words she couldn’t say at twenty are getting harder to outrun at thirty.

In a town where everyone has an opinion, privacy is mostly theoretical, and romance might as well be a spectator sport, Emory and Jake are about to find out if love is something you leave behind…

or something worth coming home for.

Just One More Thing is a funny, second chance, small town romance about childhood best friends, first love, laugh-out-loud town chaos, a scene stealing bulldog, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book one in the Blue Crab Bay series.

JUST ONE MORE THING . 8/12

JUST ONE MORE THING . 8/12 JUST ONE MORE THING . 8/12

JUST ONE MORE THING . 8/12