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If All Else Sails
Christian romance
If All Else Sails
368 pages · First published 2025
School nurse Josie expects a sibling summer adventure and instead finds herself sent to help Wyatt Jacobs, an injured hockey player who is also her brother’s best friend and her longtime enemy. She reluctantly assists with his recovery, then volunteers to accompany him on a sailing trip down the Intracoastal Waterway to scatter his late uncle’s ashes. Cramped quarters, canned food, and days on the water expose sides of Wyatt that Josie has never understood and challenge her version of their shared history. This closed-door grumpy-sunshine romance combines enemies-to-lovers tension, brother’s-best-friend complications, and a summer sailing journey toward Savannah.
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Mild romantic content, including kissing
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