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Off Book at Ocean's End
Paperback
Publisher: Guy Roberts
Published: Aug 23 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When a canceled TV showrunner flees the headlines for the far edge of the map, Sloane Ito lands at Kelp & Copper FM-Ocean's End, Washington's stubborn little community station. She's here to make a live radio play season, keep her head down, and remember what craft feels like when no one's doom-scrolling it.
Beck Calder, prickly station manager and single dad, keeps the place on air with copper tape, laminated checklists, and a world-class suspicion of fame. He has two rules: don't blow the budget, and don't blow up his daughter's safe place.
But the moment a storm knocks out power mid-broadcast, Sloane and Beck improvise by lantern light-turning beach junk into Foley and friction into chemistry the whole town can hear. As fund-drive totals inch up and the lease fight heats, a found family of radio weirdos forms around them: a kid SFX captain with storm-leaf secrets, a ruthless treasurer with a warm heart, and a congregation of callers who keep the line alive.
To earn their happily-ever-after, Sloane must pick quiet excellence over comeback headlines, and Beck must learn that boundaries aren't walls-they're doors with hinges. With grumpy/sunshine banter, competence that sings, and a finale that could save the station, Off-Book at Ocean's End is a cozy, kinetic romance about choosing the small, good thing-and letting it be enough.
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