What Remains of Summer

She came back to sell a house. She stayed for everything she'd left behind.

Nora Calloway has spent twenty years being excellent at leaving. She photographs cities around the world, travels light, and never stays anywhere long enough to belong. When her father dies, she returns to Millhaven, Vermont - just long enough to sell the house and get out.

The only hotel in town is the Lakeside Inn. Owned and restored by Owen Mercer, 52, the man she spent one impossible summer with sixteen years ago - when he was married and she had a plane ticket and both of them were careful about all the wrong things.

✦ Second chance romance with real emotional weight

✦ Age gap: 38F / 52M - both adults, both fully formed

✦ Forced proximity in a lovingly restored Vermont inn

✦ Slow burn that earns every moment

Owen kept the book she inscribed before she left. Her father kept the photograph of that summer. Some things don't let you leave cleanly.

As the house sale stretches on and October turns to something neither of them planned, Nora has to decide: is permanence the narrowing she's always feared, or the thing she's been running toward all along?

What Remains of Summer

is a deeply felt second-chance romance about two people who finally have the right timing - if they're brave enough to use it.