The Last Summer of Light

Iris Calloway has spent fifteen years chasing light. From the glaciers of Iceland to the temples of Kyoto, she has photographed the most beautiful places on earth, building a career on her ability to see what others miss. But when her father suffers a heart attack, she is called back to Meridian Cove, the small Maine town she left at seventeen and never returned to. Coming home means confronting everything she ran from: the mother who died too young, the father she stopped visiting, the childhood friend she stopped calling, and the studio where her mother painted the light that Iris has been trying to capture ever since. As Iris cares for her father, discovers her mother's last unfinished painting, and falls for a marine biologist who chose this town deliberately, she begins to see her own work-and her own life-in a new light. She must decide between the career she built and the life that has been waiting for her, between the light she chases and the light she carries. **The Last Summer of Light** is a novel about the courage to come home, the grief that shapes us, and the love that remains. It is a story about seeing-not just with your eyes, but with your whole heart. *For everyone who has ever gone looking for something and discovered it was right where they started.*