The Farewell Summer

A struggling writer returns to North Carolina for one last summer at her family’s coastal inn, only to find herself faced with the boy who once broke her heart, in this emotional second-chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Kate Clayborn.

Between a tabloid-worthy affair with a renowned musician and the subsequent tell-all memoir, Harper Harroway has led an unexpectedly public life. But fame is fickle, and after months of bad press, worse decisions, and an increasingly precarious career, Harper gets a call that forces her to trade one trouble for another. Her family’s long-running bed-and-breakfast, situated on a rapidly eroding slice of the North Carolina coast, is on the verge of its inevitable end. With only one season left to give longtime guests—and themselves—a proper farewell to the B and B, Harper returns home to help.

What she doesn’t expect is Theo. Once her first love—and the one who broke her heart—he’s back in town with a plan to keep the inn from going under. Harper doesn’t trust his motives, but with her mother keeping secrets and her sister’s marriage falling apart, she doesn’t have the luxury of walking away.

As the water rises and the summer wears on, Harper works to preserve what she can and say farewell to what she can’t, while her growing closeness with Theo forces them both to confront what’s still between them—and whether it’s worth saving.

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