The Painted Hull

The Painted Hull
A Coastal Maine Love Story

Josie Lowell spent ten years proving she didn't need Camden, or her family's boatyard, to know her art was worth something. She's built a career, a gallery, a life entirely her own, forty miles and a whole world away from the smell of cedar shavings and low tide.

Then Theo March tows a broken sloop up the drive at Lowell Boatworks, and Josie finds herself painting the harbor light again for the first time in years.

Theo has spent his whole adult life making sure he never stays anywhere long enough to be missed when he leaves. Restoring his late grandfather's boat was only ever supposed to take a summer. But somewhere between the boatyard, a woman who tells him the truth without apology, and a town that keeps quietly asking him to stay, Theo starts to wonder if he's finally found the one place worth the risk.

When the restoration uncovers a hidden compartment, an unsent letter, and a secret two generations deep, both of them are forced to reckon with what it actually costs to love something, or someone, on purpose.

The Painted Hull is a New England coastal romance about the families we inherit, the ones we choose, and the particular kind of courage it takes to finally stay.