First published 2019
The summer feels different from the start. She lands a job, settles into the rhythm of it, and then meets him: the employer's son, charming and completely forbidden. She knows the rules. She breaks them anyway. What follows is the kind of connection that rewrites a person, the sort that doesn't fade just because circumstances force two people apart. But circumstances do exactly that. Years pass. A decade of ordinary life accumulates on top of what happened that summer, and she carries it the way people carry things they never got to finish. Then he comes back. Standing in front of her again, he is both the person she remembers and someone she has to figure out all over again. The feelings did not wait politely for time to pass. They stayed. Now she has to decide whether what they had was a season or a story, and whether two people shaped by ten years of separate living can find their way back to something real. Penelope Ward builds the tension slowly and earns every beat of it.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, emotional, intimate, introspective, nostalgic, slow-burn
Tropes: forbidden-romance, reunion, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
336 pages · Paperback · Independently Published