Double Booked

She gave them thirty years. They handed her a cardboard box.

At fifty-seven, Nora Whitfield thought she’d be running the company she devoted her life to. Instead, she’s been pushed out, politely dismissed as not a culture fit, and left wondering how everything she worked for disappeared so quietly.

Her marriage ended years ago. Her apartment feels temporary. And for the first time in her meticulously planned life, Nora does something wildly out of character.

She buys a failing hotel in the Caribbean.

The problem?

Santa Aurelia doesn’t care about spreadsheets or schedules.

The staff resists her systems. The hotel is falling apart.

And thanks to an obscure island law she didn’t read closely enough, the hotel’s former owner—charming, stubborn, and entirely too comfortable—has ninety days to vacate and no intention of making it easy.

As renovations stall and tempers flare, Nora is forced to confront more than faulty plumbing and island bureaucracy. She begins to question the version of herself she’s been performing for decades and whether success has to look the way she was taught it should.

Set against sun-soaked beaches and a community that refuses to let her fail quietly, Double Booked is a witty, heartfelt story about starting over, letting go of control, and discovering that love—and life—don’t come with expiration dates.

A smart, feel-good women’s fiction novella with romance, humor, and hope.