The Season That Settled It: A Gulf Coast Family Saga, Book 8 of The Legacy of the Bay by Don D. Brown, follows Port Harmony through a hurricane near miss—and toward a storm that will test everything the town believes about its protection. The hurricane misses Port Harmony by sixty miles. Its four-foot surge leaves the new seawalls standing, and the town takes survival as proof that the engineers were right and the marsh never mattered. Yet insurance premiums climb across the county simply because the storm came near. Jack Dalton knows what that reassuring record cannot prove: surviving four feet of water says little about surviving fourteen. And hurricane season is not over. When another storm fixes its eye on the bay, the question the town kept voting to defer will be answered by an authority that never adjourns. Set along Florida’s Gulf Coast, this novel brings together family, community, coastal stewardship, and the consequences of misplaced confidence. Some seasons end an argument. This is the season that settled it. Paperback edition • 223 pages • Book 8 of The Legacy of the Bay