Changing Lanes by Rebeca Seitz and Kathleen C. Rooney (Available Feb 2/27)

Coming February 2, 2027!

For anyone wondering whether they chose the right life.

Meg Harrison has built her life on control. At just thirty-two, she’s one of the youngest—and few female—partners at a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm. She knows how to manage high-stakes cases, demanding clients, and carefully compartmentalized emotions.

What she doesn’t know how to manage is grief.

When her father, a beloved Naples attorney, dies suddenly, Meg is forced to return to the coastal town she loves—but avoids. Overwhelmed by the logistics of burying her father and unsettled by memories of losing her mother years earlier, Meg makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision: she agrees to advise one of Joe’s longtime clients on the sale of his luxury car valet business.

It should be easy. Straightforward. Temporary.

Instead, Meg finds herself navigating unfamiliar business terrain, a town rapidly changing under the pressure of growth, and a community that still remembers the girl she used to be. Things get even more complicated when she runs into Nolan Wainwright—a successful New York architect, Naples native, and one of the last people she expects to see while unraveling.

As professional challenges mount and emotions surface, Meg begins to question the life she’s built so carefully. Her father’s unfinished work, the town’s fragile charm, and her own guarded heart all demand answers she’s no longer sure she can avoid.

Set beneath glowing Gulf Coast sunsets, Book One of the Return to Naples series is a cozy, emotionally rich women’s fiction novel about grief, legacy, second chances, and the courage it takes to decide where—and with whom—you truly belong.

Rebeca Seitz is a bestselling writer and producer who lives with her family in Naples, Florida. Her career began as a launch publicist for the fiction imprint of a Top Ten publisher. She later founded and sold a literary public relations firm, authored a dozen novels and memoirs, and co-founded a film and television development studio. Rebeca currently leads The 1C Story Network and continues to write novels, memoirs, and screenplays. She serves on the Library Advisory Board for Collier County Public Libraries and is a board member of The Center for Critical Thinking.

Kathleen C. Rooney lives in Naples, Florida with her husband, Francis. They first arrived by sailboat in the mid-1980s and became permanent residents in 2002. The Rooneys support the Naples Historical Society, the Gulf of Mexico Reef Restoration Project, The Everglades Foundation, and Captains for Clean Water. Kathleen came to writing later in life and brings a lifelong love of storytelling to her work. In addition to co-writing the Return to Naples Series, she wrote the screenplay for the independent film Light from the Darkroom and recently completed her second screenplay, The East Trail.

"Changing Lanes is an exceptionally well-written book, a perfect escape for anyone who enjoys a good read that is chock-full of local facts and lore as well!” — Elaine Reed, Former President & CEO of Naples Historical Society (2007 – 2024) 

“Real estate agents in Southwest Florida should run out and gather copies of Changing Lanes. Meg Harrison, a lawyer at a Washington, DC law firm, is weighing whether to leave DC and return to Naples, Florida. The appeal of the Gulf Coast, the sandy beach, the pier, the palm trees, and the shopping areas might be helping Meg to make her decision, as it may for those reading Changing Lanes.” — Carole O’Malley Gaunt, award-winning playwright and author, Hungry Hill: A Memoir