JUST ONE MORE THING • 8/12

JUST ONE MORE THING • 8/12

Dani Akard writes contemporary small-town romance full of laugh out loud chaos.

Her debut novel, Just One More Thing, introduces readers to Blue Crab Bay, a coastal town where privacy is cute in theory. Rare in practice.

She believes there’s nothing more romantic than loving the person who makes you laugh.

When she isn’t writing, Dani is usually at the water’s edge with her husband, two English bulldogs, and entirely too many feelings about fictional people.

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Ten years ago, Jake Wheeler told his best friend, Emory Donovan, he loved her.

She said thank you.

Now Emory is back in Blue Crab Bay just long enough to help her grandmother run the town’s doughnut shop while she recovers from a broken leg. 

Jake is back too. The former NFL quarterback has traded stadium lights for crab boats and dock sunrises, and when Emory walks back into town, he looks at her like she never left.

Between festivals, movie night on The Green, and a town that loves love a little too publicly, the distance Emory swore she’d keep disappears. So do the walls she built to protect herself from the one person she never truly got over.

She still sleeps in his jersey. He still sends Morse code across the water. And the words she couldn’t say at twenty are getting harder to outrun at thirty.

In a town where everyone has an opinion, privacy is mostly theoretical, and romance is practically a community event, Emory and Jake must decide whether first love belongs in the past...
...or if some people are worth risking your heart for twice. 

Just One More Thing is a laugh-out-loud small town romantic comedy about childhood best friends, first love, second chances, a scene-stealing bulldog, and the kind of town you'll wish was real.

The first book in the Blue Crab Bay series.

JUST ONE MORE THING available on Amazon August 12.

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Signed Paperback
$20.00

Signed and personalized first-edition paperback of Just One More Thing.

Exclusive to pre-orders: Copies will include a handwritten note, story tidbits, trivia or maybe a paw print from Bullie or Boom.

Price includes U.S. shipping and a signed Blue Crab Bay postcard.

Just One More Thing • 446 pages

This is a pre-order. Paperback will ship in August.

Dual narration by Tal Winter and Andrew Wehrlen

Signed Hardcover
$30.00

Signed and personalized first-edition jacketed hardcover of Just One More Thing.

Exclusive to pre-orders: Copies will include a handwritten note, story tidbits, trivia or maybe a paw print from Bullie or Boom.

Price includes U.S. shipping and a signed Blue Crab Bay postcard.

Just One More Thing • 446 pages

This is a pre-order. Hardcover will ship in August.

Limited Edition bkr
$75.00

Pre-order for delivery in August

Limited edition . Only a small number available.

You can now have your own emotional support water bottle.

Exclusive Just One More Thing bkr with icons from Jake and Emory’s love story.

  • 16 oz (known as little)

  • Glass bottle

  • Removable silicone sleeve in color Paris

  • Dishwasher safe (caps top rack only)

  • Leak-proof cap

  • Straw caps and silicone straws available at mybkr.com

Price includes bottle, sleeve, cap and shipping.


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Dani Akard | Small-Town Romance
Author of the Blue Crab Bay series