Brass Ring
A Second-Chance Summer Romance

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Roz Garland fixes things for a living. In Chicago she saves broken objects other people would throw away, and she is very good at it. Then her grandmother dies and leaves her a whole pier of them: a 1912 carousel with forty-eight painted animals, a Ferris wheel that is one loose bolt from a county shutdown, and a repair bill due on Labor Day.

She has one summer to decide whether to save Whitecap Pier or sell it to a smiling developer with a very large offer. She also has Callum Brandvold, the park's master carver, the boy she left ten summers ago and never stopped writing to in her head. He is still easy to talk to. He is still impossible to forget. And he still has sawdust in his hair.

Then the clues begin. Her grandmother has hidden five brass rings around the pier, each tied to a line of verse, and recorded a shelf of cassette tapes that Roz must play in order. The carousel's lead horse has been missing since 1974. Every ring she finds brings her closer to the answer, and closer to Callum.

But a summer is short, a secret is heavy, and a misunderstanding can ruin a lantern night.

A warm, funny, clean second-chance romance with a gentle mystery, a town full of characters and a happy ending worth waiting for. A contemporary romance.