One More August

By Nolan Maren

Thirty years ago they said "maybe next year." This is the August they finally find out.

A second-chance love story for grown-ups: she is 55, he is 58, and both have lived whole lives since 1994.One last summer at the family lake camp in Vermont, with old logbooks, family arguments and a vote on selling it.Closed-door, warm and honest: romance about who they became, not who they used to be.

In the summer of 1994, Laura Danforth left Vermont for Seattle, and Jack Lavoie stayed to run his family's hardware store after his father's stroke. Neither of them waited. They married other people, raised children, built careers, and came apart from their marriages for reasons of their own.

Now Laura's aunt is gone, and the lake camp the Danforths and the Lavoies have shared since 1962 must be emptied and sold. Laura comes back for one August to do the work.

Jack still lives eight miles from the lake. He still knows how to fix the pump.

Between repairs, a difficult offer on the camp, grown children with opinions of their own and long evenings on the dock, Laura and Jack learn that what they remember about each other is no longer the point. The question is whether the people they became would choose each other now, and what each of them would have to change to find out.

For readers who love later-in-life romance, second chances, lake-house summers and stories where the love interest is a grown man with a real life.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLRF36YV
• ISBN13: 9798178351673
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"