Chapter 1 - THE WRONG HOUSE
After discovering her fiancé Ryan cheating only fourteen weeks before their wedding, Clare Bennett escapes Boston for a desperately needed week alone on the Maine coast. Instead, a vacation-rental mistake sends her to 18 Bayberry Lane in North Haven rather than the rental with the same address in neighboring South Haven.
She lets herself inside using the code provided by Shoreline Stays, unpacks her groceries, and drinks from a delicate glass in the kitchen—only for the real owner, Alexander Hayes, to walk in from the ocean and ask why a complete stranger is drinking from his dead mother's favorite glass.
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A tense call to Shoreline Stays confirms the impossible mistake. Alexander once allowed the company to manage the house for only six weeks, eleven years earlier, before buying out the remaining family ownership. They should not still possess his access code.
Just when Clare thinks humiliation is the worst thing that can happen, the rental representative tells them there is one more problem.
