Summer at the Lakehouse

Nell Bennett has built a careful life on the shores of Blue Otter Cove — her bookstore on Main Street, a quiet apartment, and a community she keeps politely at arm’s length. After the past she’s running from, small and safe is exactly how she wants it. But kayak guide Zach never got the memo: three years of bringing her a latte she never asked for, remembering her favorite books, and watching over her without asking for anything back. When a developer’s foreclosure letter threatens the bookstore and her past finally catches up, the one person standing steady beside her is the man she’s spent years refusing to need.