First published 2023
Garland Moore's husband handed her divorce papers over Valentine's Day dinner. That was enough to convince her she was done with love entirely. So when friends invite her to spend a week at Camp Carl Cove, a newly reopened sleepaway camp tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains, she signs up for the escape, not the romance. She brings her sister along and plans to keep her head down. Then Mason shows up. Garland had a premonition about this man years ago after a single brief meeting, and now the universe seems to be shoving him directly into her path. She tries to sidestep the whole situation. Instead she ends up sharing a cabin with his sister Stevie, a former park ranger who is funny and competitive and hard to ignore. Camp tournaments, moonlit dances, and close quarters do their work. Garland came to Camp Carl Cove to let go of her past. She did not expect to fall for a woman. She did not expect to feel anything at all. That Summer Feeling is a queer romance about a skeptic who stopped trusting her own heart and a summer that refuses to let her stay numb.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance, lesbian-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartwarming, hopeful, intimate, introspective, romantic
Tropes: forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
Setting: Camp Carl Cove, Blue Ridge Mountains
Period: contemporary
336 pages · Paperback · Berkley