THE SUMMER WE CAME BACK: Bellwether Bay Summers, #1

Fourteen years ago, Caroline Vale left Bellwether Bay—and Jamie Mercer—before sunrise. She built a formidable career in Washington, learned how to keep every feeling under control, and never looked back.

Until her grandmother's death brings her home.

Lantern House, the weathered coastal home Caroline inherits with her two sisters, is beautiful, beloved, and dangerously close to falling apart. With only ninety days to decide its future, Caroline plans to stabilize the property, sell it, and return to the life she worked so hard to build.

There is only one problem: Jamie is the contractor hired to save it.

As the two of them work side by side, old anger gives way to unfinished desire, and the house begins revealing secrets buried behind its walls. Every discovery forces Caroline to question what she believed about leaving, staying, ambition, family, and the first love she never truly forgot.

But when the summer ends, Caroline will have to choose between the future she planned and the life—and love—waiting for her in Bellwether Bay.

The Summer We Came Back is an emotional contemporary romance about second chances, sisterhood, homecoming, and the courage to build a life that is truly your own.