The Summer We Stayed

She came home to sell the past. She never expected a future worth staying for.

Nora Vale has three weeks to settle her aunt's estate, sell the aging inn beside Lake Wren, and return to Chicago. Heron House holds too many memories-and repairing its leaking ceilings was never part of her plan.

Neither was Eli Mercer.

The carpenter helping restore the inn is the man Nora loved ten years ago. Working beside him brings back the ease she remembers, along with feelings she thought she had left behind. As neglected rooms fill with possibility and the garden begins to bloom, Nora starts imagining a different life.

But choosing Heron House doesn't mean giving up the career she has built. And when Eli's fear of losing her leads him to make a promise that was never his to make, their second chance threatens to fall apart.

With the inn's future uncertain and her trust shaken, Nora must decide what she wants to keep. Eli must find the courage to love her without deciding where she belongs.

Set in a lakeside Wisconsin town, The Summer We Stayed is a contemporary second-chance romance about rebuilding trust, choosing a home, and making room for the person you love to grow.