Rhetoric of Roots. Bracken Cove Mystery, #3

Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla's life is a perfectly structured sentence. She has her research, her tweed blazers, and her husband Frank-a mechanic who speaks in monosyllables but fixes things with the soul of a poet. But then, the "Hyperbole of Hollywood" arrives.
A film crew descends to turn their "weathered" town into a cinematic metaphor, bringing with them rubber lobsters, synthetic fog, and a leading man determined to "osmose" Frank's rugged authenticity. As the town's identity is rewritten for the screen, Isla is grappling with an unscripted edit of her own: a secret pregnancy that threatens to erase the "Academic Isla" she spent years building. When a real storm collides with the fake one, leading to a catastrophic fire at the town's historical archive, Isla must step out of the margins.
In the face of a community under siege, she discovers that some things can't be edited-and that the most important chapters are the ones we never saw coming. Will Isla let the "Mother" overwrite the "Scholar, " or can she find the perfect synthesis in a town that refuses to be a footnote?