Tuckborough Under Siege — Susan Hart

In the quaint coastal village of Tuckborough, the air was thick with a briny tang and the steady hum of gossip. Life moved at the easy clip of the tides, and even the tiniest disruption could ripple across the whole town. When Warren Braddock, a sharply dressed developer from New York, arrived with bold plans to buy up half the village and raze it for a sprawling luxury condo complex, Tuckborough's collective hackles immediately went up.