Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Sadie Greene—The Marine Who Came Back
Meet Sadie Greene — the San Diego author behind sweet, feel-good Southern California romance. A reality dating show, a Marine ex, and an eight-year-old truth detector.
Series: Casa Dorada Romances series
The Book: A tv personality comes to Casa Dorada to host a glossy reality dating show about second chances—the kind of polished, on-camera romance that's easy to script and hard to mean. Then she walks straight into Cole Whitaker, the Marine she loved fourteen years ago, the one who left and didn't look back. He's the resort's head of security now. He is, to put it gently, not thrilled to see her.
The trouble is the resort is small and the days are long. Cole has an eight-year-old son named Caleb — a self-styled truth detector with a documentary camera and an eye for the exact things grown-ups would rather he not film. There's a dog who has decided, with the unshakable confidence of a good dog, that she belongs to the pack. There are evening walks and stolen glances and a co-host whose on-air romance stunts get a little too creative. Cole keeps showing up to rescue her from her own job, and she keeps letting him.
Then the producers smell ratings in the air. They want to broadcast the private moments — the real ones — to an audience that doesn't know the difference between a story and a life. Which leaves her with the kind of choice second-chance romances are built on: the career she came here for, or the family she didn't see coming.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)
What Readers Are Saying: Just launched — reader reviews are still coming in.
“A grumpy Marine, an eight-year-old documentarian, and a dog who picks his own people—this one ticks every box on my forced-proximity wishlist. If you like your second-chance romance clean, sun-drenched, and full of the kind of small-town resort details that make you want to book a long weekend, The Marine Who Came Back is going in my TBR.”
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