The Secrets of Maiden's Cove

By: Erin Palmisano

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

There is a small fishing village on the Chesapeake Bay called Maiden’s Cove, where food brings people together, bioluminescence lights the sand in the sultry summer months, and myths and legends of mermaids seep into every memory and story.

When Grace Cleary's father passes suddenly, she realizes that the life she has shared with her husband Richard is not the one she ever wanted for herself or her daughter, Bayla. She has inherited Cleary's Crab Shack, her father's seafood restaurant and the center of the small Maiden's Cove community, and it gives her the push she needs to leave Richard, who has been controlling her decisions for too long. She and Bayla leave in the night and return to Maiden's Cove.

Though familiar faces of family and friends welcome Grace and her daughter home, Cleary's Crab Shack has suffered from the loss of her father and it is up to her and her family, friends, and the community, to save it from closing.

When Grace's estranged childhood best friend, Isla, returns to Maiden's Cove, the old rumors and myths begin yet again. Is Isla a mermaid? Has she descended from the family who founded Maiden's Cove and then returned to the sea? But to Grace, she is only the best friend she's ever had, and Grace knows that this is their last summer together and their one chance to make amends.

What started off as a bright summer turns dark as the shadow of Richard looms over Grace and Bayla. He's not ready to let his family go. But Grace is building a new life and reconnecting with everything she has missed from her childhood.

As the summer unfolds with delicious seafood, hot summer days and nights, unexpected romance, and a little bit of mermaid magic, can the women reconnect with one another enough to find themselves again, and to heal from the years apart and away from the one place that is truly home – Maiden's Cove?

©2025 Erin Palmisano (P)2025 Grand Central Publishing