Rachel Morgan has always been the one with a plan. Peter Donovan has spent years avoiding one.

Rachel knows exactly where she belongs: Newport, Rhode Island. Between helping at Coastal Escape Inn, coordinating weddings and events, and keeping everyone around her organized, she has built a life that feels steady, familiar, and safe.

Peter Donovan is the opposite. A Harbor View project manager accustomed to moving from city to city, he has learned not to get too attached to any place-or anyone. But Newport is beginning to feel different, especially once Rachel becomes part of his everyday life.

What starts with fundraiser meetings, shared dinners, and a sunset cruise slowly becomes something neither of them expected. As Rachel begins to question whether the life she has carefully planned is still the one she wants, Peter must decide whether he is ready to stop moving long enough to call somewhere home again.

Set against Newport's waterfront, holiday celebrations, close friendships, and the opening of Harbor View, Where It Was All Along is a heartfelt contemporary romance about love after loss, new beginnings, and discovering that sometimes the future you were searching for has been right in front of you all along.

Book Three in the Coastal Escape Series.