About this book:

They say you can never truly go home again—but Clara Weston never planned on trying. A decade after escaping the sleepy coastal town of Havenwood and the boy whose heart she broke, she returns only to settle her late aunt’s estate: a crumbling Victorian mansion perched above the Atlantic. Yet the moment she steps through the door, she’s met not with dust and silence, but with fresh coffee, jazz music, and the last person she ever wanted to face. Liam Maxwell, the boy she left behind, now a rugged man with stormy eyes and calloused hands, has been repairing her aunt’s house—and he’s not about to let Clara treat it like a line item on a balance sheet.

As Clara unpacks more than boxes under the eaves of her childhood bedroom, she finds a final letter from Eleanor, a woman who knew her heart better than she knew herself. The will comes with a condition: sixty days before the house can be sold, and one last exhibition of Eleanor’s art. Stranded in a town where every corner holds a memory, Clara must navigate the ghosts of summers past, the weight of expectations, and a man who looks at her like he’s seen a ghost—because in a way, he has. The tide has brought her back to Havenwood, but the question is whether she’ll have the courage to stay.

**The Last Promise of Summer** is a sweeping, emotional second-chance romance about letting go of the life you built so you can find the life you were meant to live. If you love small-town settings, brooding heroes with hidden depths, and heroines who must learn that some promises are worth keeping, this novel will carry you away on a tide of longing, laughter, and love rediscovered. The salt-kissed air is calling—are you ready to answer?