Magnolia Summer
A forbidden summer, years apart, and a second chance in Laurel
- Romance
Eighteen-year-old Brie Montgomery has one summer left before college in Tennessee, and one rule she can’t afford to break: stay away from Seth Madden. He’s six years older, he’s her honorary big brother’s best friend, and Dylan Hudson has run off every boy who ever looked at her twice. But one summer is long enough to fall hard. What they steal in secret, behind stop signs and in the dark of Seth’s garage, is fierce and tender. What they lose is worse. A cousin taken. A hospital hallway. A girl Brie is sure belongs to Seth. So she leaves for Tennessee and lets every one of his calls go to voicemail. He drinks to forget her. One reckless night gives him a son. Before the baby is an hour old, Seth is raising him alone. Four years later, a funeral brings Brie home with a broken heart from a cheating boyfriend, a brand-new diploma, and a job waiting in Knoxville. She doesn’t expect to find Seth Madden a grieving single father. And she definitely doesn’t expect a little boy who takes one look at her and calls her Mommy. Old heat and old wounds collide. Secrets finally spill. And when one terrifying day nearly costs them everything, Brie has to decide where her heart truly belongs. Magnolia Summer is a small-town, age-gap, second-chance romance about gossip, grief, and the kind of love that waits under an oak tree until both of you are brave enough to stay.
