The Last Summer at Willow Cove
At seventy-three, Eleanor Hart thought the great love story of her life was already behind her.
Five years after losing her husband, Robert, Eleanor has built a quiet life in Willow Cove. She tends her roses, volunteers at the library, drinks coffee at Ruth's caf , and takes her morning walks beside the lake. It isn't the life she once had, but it's hers-and she has become very good at convincing everyone, including herself, that it's enough.
Then Jack Sullivan comes home.
Jack has returned to Willow Cove after the death of his brother, Daniel, intending to clean out the family cottage, make the necessary repairs, and sell it. He certainly doesn't expect Eleanor Hart to march across the cove one morning and inform him that he has no business tearing apart Daniel's beloved dock.
Jack disagrees.
Eleanor doesn't particularly care.
Their first conversation becomes an argument. The next becomes another. Before long, the retired schoolteacher and the stubborn old fisherman are sharing coffee, memories, laughter, family-and the ordinary moments neither realized how badly they had missed. What begins with a weathered dock slowly becomes a friendship, and then something neither expected to find this late in life.
But loving someone new doesn't erase the people who came before.
Eleanor still loves Robert. Jack carries losses of his own. Their children have memories, worries, and complicated histories, while Willow Cove is the sort of town where everyone knows everyone else's business-usually before the people involved know it themselves.
As one summer unfolds beside the lake, Eleanor and Jack must decide whether honoring yesterday means living inside it...or whether the heart can hold everything it has loved and still make room for tomorrow.
The Last Summer at Willow Cove is a warm, emotional romance about grief, family, second chances, and the extraordinary importance of ordinary days.
Because sometimes love doesn't ask you to leave the past behind.
Sometimes it simply asks if there's room to walk beside it.
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