Summer Wishes at Serendipity Springs:

She came back to Serendipity Springs to fix up a cabin and sell it. Falling for the man who makes her want to stay was never part of the plan.

Mara Kessler hasn’t returned to her grandparents’ lakeside cabin in eleven years. Now she has one simple goal: renovate it, sell it, and move on.

Then her fifteen-year-old nephew, Jamie, comes to stay for the summer.

Still grieving the loss of his father, Jamie needs more than Mara knows how to give him. She hopes a summer in the place that once meant so much to her might help them both—but she never expects Cole Bennett to become part of their lives.

Cole is a search-and-rescue leader who knows Miracle Mountain better than almost anyone. Dependable, quiet and happiest keeping to himself, he has his own reasons for maintaining a careful distance from other people.

But Mara has a way of disrupting his solitude.

As Cole helps Mara with the cabin and begins drawing Jamie out of his shell, the three of them form an unexpected bond. Between days by the lake, small-town celebrations and time spent together, Mara starts to see the life she planned to leave behind very differently.

And Cole begins to wonder whether keeping his heart safely guarded has cost him more than he realized.

But Mara still has a cabin to sell and a life waiting for her elsewhere, while Cole has spent years convincing himself that caring too deeply only gives him more to lose.

The closer summer comes to an end, the harder it becomes to walk away from the family—and the love—they never expected to find.

Summer Wishes at Serendipity Springs is a clean and wholesome contemporary romance featuring later-in-life love, a guarded search-and-rescue hero, a lakeside cabin, found family, emotional healing, small-town charm and a guaranteed happily ever after.