Bracken Cove Rom-Com

History is written by the victors. Or, in this case, by a panicked linguist with a quill and a plan to commit a felony. Isla Rhys-Jones, former Oxford academic turned boat mechanic's wife, thought the hardest part of Maine life was the weather. That was before a November gale stripped the mud from the harbor floor, revealing the skeletal remains...

Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured sentence. She has her research, her tweed blazers, and her husband Frank—a mechanic who speaks in monosyllables but fixes things with the soul of a...

Isla Rhys has a PhD in Linguistics, a perfectly organized bookshelf, and a color-coded life. She definitely does not have a plan for being evicted by a cardboard cutout named Angus.

Displaced by her landlady’s sudden pivot to “Highland Immersive Tourism,” Isla is left with one option: moving into the chaotic, grease-stained, sawdust-covered home...

Isla Rhys has lost her flat, her fiancé, and her faith in the possessive apostrophe—all in the span of twelve minutes.

When her Oxford academic fiancé dumps her via a text message that reads “Your to intense,” Isla doesn’t just mourn the relationship; she mourns the grammar. Needing an escape where syntax doesn’t matter, she flees to her cousin’s...