The Last Summer at Willow Lake

She came home to sell the past. He's the reason she can't let it go.Mara Ellison built her career turning glass towers into skylines and forgotten brownstones into landmarks - but nothing prepared her for the sight of her father's crumbling lakeside lodge, or for the man waiting on the dock when she arrives to close it out for good.Owen Hart was supposed to be a memory. Instead, he's holding a pry bar, running the restoration her father hired him for months before he died, and standing exactly where he left her fifteen years ago.With a buyer's deadline ticking down and the lodge's rotted bones exposing secrets no inspection report can capture, Mara and Owen are forced back into the same rooms, the same arguments, and the same current that once pulled them together. Every beam they repair uncovers something neither of them wanted found - a hidden letter, a name in a ledger, the real reason Owen walked away. And the closer they get to finishing the job, the harder it becomes to remember why they were supposed to stay apart.Some homes aren't lost. They're just waiting for the right person to come back and rebuild them.The Last Summer At Willow Lake is a slow-burn, small-town, friends-to-lovers romance about grief, second chances, and the kind of love that survives being taken apart - perfect for readers who love reunion romance, found family, and stories where healing the house means healing the heart.