Light Across the Water: A Small Town Second Chance Romance (Milan Series)

By Mae Hollis

She came back for two weeks. She stayed for what happened. Anna Hendricks left Milan at twenty-seven to build the life her father believed she could have. She built it. Eleven years, a banking career, an apartment with a subletter in it. Then her father died, and she ran out of reasons to stay gone. Milan is doing October without her, the way it has for eleven years. The neon at the bar still flickers. The stop sign out on Route 9 still has its dent. And Garrett Brennan has bought back his family's barn on the ridge above the lake and put a brewery in it. She knew him when they were younger, in the way you know someone in a small town. She was not prepared for who he became. He notices everything and asks for nothing. He remembers how she takes her coffee. He brings soup when the storm comes. He does not ask her to stay. Which turns out to be the hardest thing anyone has ever done to her. What Anna has to work out is not whether she wants him. It is what she was running from, what her father knew and never said, and whether a woman who spent eleven years being competent can let herself be known instead. WHAT TO EXPECTSlow burn, closed door. The tension is on the page and the doors are shut.A heroine at thirty-eight and a hero a few years youngerHe falls first. She notices, and pretends she does not.A town that already knows before she doesGrief handled honestly, and humor that earns its placeNo cliffhanger. One complete story, and a happy ending.Set in a fictional Finger Lakes town on a Y shaped lake in upstate New York, Light Across the Water opens the Milan Series: standalone love stories connected by one town, one lake, and the people who never left. Phoenix Industries Media and Publishing LLC, Moravia, New York.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDM24767
• ISBN13: 9798191748467
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"