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The Summer of Love and Secrets

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A second chance romance about love, loss and the courage to love again

Kate Hemingway has loved and lost more than most. As a homeless teenager, a chance encounter with a journalist changed her life. Kate became a successful model, she married the man of her dreams and they had a son. Kate had found the happiness she'd always craved — until the day journalist Paul Farrell arrived at her door with news that shattered everything.

Now a widow and a single mother, Kate makes herself one promise: no one will ever get close enough to hurt her and her little boy George again.

George adores his godfather Paul, but Kate struggles to understand what her son idolises in him. With her, Paul has always been guarded and distant.
Then Paul proposes a deal: he'll publicise Kate's charity for disadvantaged girls in an article, if Kate will agree to an interview. Reluctantly, Kate agrees. But as Paul accompanies Kate and the girls on their trip to Yorkshire, somewhere on those wild moorlands she begins to see a very different man behind the careful distance Paul has always kept.

Paul has been carrying a secret for years. And when Kate discovers what it is, she must decide whether the courage to love again is something she can find.

A sweeping, feel-good second chance romance about grief, hope and the unexpected places love finds us.

'This book is exceptional... immensely uplifting and life-affirming' Anne Williams Reviews, Amazon Vine Voice

Reviews

'A lovely, emotive and heart-warming contemporary romance story that draws in the audience and takes hold from the very beginning.'

Caroline Barker, A Reader's Review book blog

'This book is exceptional... immensely uplifting and life-affirming'

Anne Williams

'A beautiful, heart-wrenching story about love, loss and friendship'

N.N. Light's Book Heaven

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