The Summer Between Us

Twelve years ago, Della Keaton and Gavin Braxton were certain they were building a future together. Then one difficult spring sent them in opposite directions, leaving behind a love neither of them fully understood how to save.

Now Della has a successful career in Atlanta, and Gavin has built a life of his own in Knoxville. Neither expects their paths to cross again.

Until two unexpected inheritances bring them back to Lake Cresswell, Georgia.

Della's beloved great-aunt leaves her a weathered lakeside cottage. Next door, Gavin inherits the neighboring house from his own great-aunt. The two properties have been connected for decades by more than friendship, sharing a dock, a well, property agreements, and a long list of repairs that will require Della and Gavin to work together through the summer.

What begins as a practical arrangement soon becomes something far more complicated.

As they sort through old belongings, untangle years of shared history, and prepare the cottages for their next chapter, Della and Gavin begin to question the story they have each carried about why their relationship ended. At the same time, they find themselves drawn not to the people they once were, but to the adults they have become.

Yet neither is waiting to be rescued from an empty life. Della has a career she loves. Gavin has work that matters deeply to him. And if they are going to risk their hearts again, they will have to discover whether a second chance can make room for two complete lives rather than asking one of them to become smaller.

Set along the warm, peaceful shores of a North Georgia lake, The Summer Between Us is an emotional, clean second-chance romance about first love, old assumptions, hard-won honesty, and finding the courage to build something new instead of trying to recreate what was lost.