One Summer: An uplifting, feel-good summer romance
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Also by Jenny Hale
The Summer House
Summer at Oyster Bay
Summer by the Sea
A Barefoot Summer
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We’ll Always Have Christmas
All I Want for Christmas
Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses
A Christmas to Remember
Coming Home for Christmas
A Letter from Jenny Hale
I’m delighted you grabbed yourself a copy of One Summer. I hope it made you feel so summery that you couldn’t wait to slip on those sunglasses and put your toes in the sand!
If this was the first time you’ve read one of my summer books, I have plenty more for you! Have a look at my other titles to keep the coastal breeze blowing: The Summer House, Summer at Oyster Bay, Summer by the Sea, and A Barefoot Summer.
If you did enjoy One Summer I’d love it if you’d write a review. Getting feedback from readers is so exciting, and it also helps to persuade other readers to pick up one of my books for the first time.
I do hope you pick up more books by me so I can share my stories with you. And if after reading all my books, you’re craving even more happy endings, I can drop you an email when my next one is out. You can sign up here.
I won’t share your email with anyone else, and I’ll only email you when a new book is released.
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Until next time!
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Jenny
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Summer by the Sea
Out now!
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A beautiful, heart-warming summer read about sisters, first love and not always getting what we want – but sometimes ending up with exactly what we need.
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They say there’s always one summer that changes you.
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For Faith the one summer she can’t forget is when she fell in love as a teenager – only for her sister, Casey, to steal her man. Now, at the request of her beloved ninety-year-old Grandmother, Faith has agreed to a family holiday – at their childhood beach house, where it all began.
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Faith hasn’t seen her sister in years but is finally ready to forgive and forget, enjoy the sunshine and relive happy memories. What she’s not ready for is meeting Jake Buchanan – the owner of the beach house – or the long-forgotten feelings he ignites in her.
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Can Faith overcome the hurt of the past, rekindle the close bond she had with Casey and make this summer THE ONE to remember?
Buy it here.
Summer at Oyster Bay
Summer at Oyster Bay is the perfect, feel-good summer romance, about the importance of home and family, learning what love is, and living for the moment.
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They say falling in love is easy. But what if you know it’ll break your heart?
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For Emily Tate, returning to her charming childhood home Oyster Bay is like coming up for air after the fast pace of her city life. At the farm her grandfather built, surrounded by sister Rachel’s chatter, Gram’s buttermilk biscuits, and the soft, white sand, Emily is reminded of exactly who she is and what she holds most dear.
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When Emily starts work at elegant Water’s Edge Inn, Charles Peterson, the handsome new owner, asks for her help. He wants to expand and needs Emily to teach him the local ways, so he can convince the planning commission. Emily vows to make him fall in love with her hometown, just the way it is.
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At work, Charles is reserved and serious, yet once Emily has him kicking off his shoes in the sand and sailing across the glistening Chesapeake Bay, she sees another side to him, and their easy rapport feels like the start of something big.
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But when it becomes clear Charles’s plans for the inn involve bulldozing Oyster Bay, Emily is heartbroken. Will she lose her home and Charles all at once, or can she save Oyster Bay, and give true love a chance?
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Buy it here!
A Barefoot Summer
'You’ll love Libby’s heartwarming journey as her life changes in ways she’d never have expected… A warm, light, brilliantly romantic story.’ 5/5 GirlsLovetoRead.com
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Get it here!
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A Barefoot Summer is a beautiful, touching story about coming home, the importance of family, and the special place that first loves hold in our hearts. Fans of Carole Matthews, Trisha Ashley, Susan Mallery and Susan Wiggs – and anyone looking for a perfect, feel-good summer read will enjoy this.
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Sometimes you find perfect where you least expect it.
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Libby Potter has just lost the perfect job, the perfect apartment and the perfect boyfriend. Moving back to the home town that she couldn’t wait to escape when she was younger was definitely not on her to-do list. Especially as it means running into the man whose heart she broke when she left.
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Pete Bennett can still make Libby’s world stop with just the sound of his voice – even ten years on. Only now, she is the last person in the world that he wants to see.
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As everyone else welcomes Libby home with open arms, she realizes she’s missed that special closeness that comes from lifelong friendship. And, as Libby seeks to make amends with Pete, she begins to wonder whether she made the right choice in leaving all those years ago.
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When an amazing career opportunity gives her the chance to leave again, Libby will have to decide what her version of perfect is… and where she really belongs.
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Available now.
We’ll Always Have Christmas
An enchanting story about the magic of Christmas, the importance of family, and the joy of falling in love during the most romantic season of the year…
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Christmas has always been a special time for Noelle Parker. Winter evenings spent with family and friends, drinking hot chocolate and eating cookies at her family’s cozy bakery have shaped her love for all things festive. But this year everything is changing…
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The beloved bakery is facing closure and Noelle needs a miracle to save Christmas.
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Determined to raise funds for the family business, Noelle sets about revamping the bakery while juggling a surprise new job, caring for the elderly and cantankerous William Harrington in his luxurious, sprawling mansion.
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As Noelle melts the frostiness of the house with cake baking, snowball fights and glittering decorations, she helps William to reconnect with a romance that has spanned decades and unexpectedly finds herself falling for his grandson - the gorgeous but mysterious Alexander Harrington…
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In the countdown to Christmas, can Noelle save the bakery, reunite a family and create some magical memories of her own along the way?
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Unwrap the feeling of Christmas in this beautiful novel celebrating friendship, family and love that lasts a lifetime. We’ll Always Have Christmas is the perfect treat for fans of Karen Swan, Susan Mallery and Sue Moorcroft.
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Buy it here.
Acknowledgements
This book is possible as a result of years of support from great folks. A gigantic thank you to two amazing people for their patience and attention, while I embarked on this journey and as I continue: Oliver Rhodes and Natasha Harding—I am forever grateful for you both; without the two of you, I would not be where I am in this business today. Oliver, I thank you for the potential you saw in me, and the time you spent on the process to get me here. Natasha, you are the absolute best with your encouragement and team approach. I’m so thankful for you. To the fantastic team at Bookouture who have made this an experience I will never forget, thank you so very much.
To all those outside of my publisher—Axelrod-Ett Productions, Nina Weinman, and so many more who continue to lift me higher in other media—thank you.
To my wonderful friends—Patty, Tia, and Adrienne, who read all my texts and corresponding emoticons during every step I made along the way—I am so grateful for your humor and excitement. The book groups who graciously had me visit and talked stories with me over the years, I send you all big hugs. Kathleen, the martinis and video book club rank up at the top! To those early readers, you are my army of good vibes; your kind words fuel me as I start every project.
And last of all, a heartfelt thank you must go out to my husband, Justin, and my kids, who I drag along to tours, landmarks, and historical sites every vacation while I squeeze in research and inspiration for that next novel that’s simmering away in my crazy brain. They have taken SUVs on the beach, climbed lighthouses, toured Christmas lights on historical homes, and had many other adventures so that I could get that reality into my scenes to bring the readers better stories. They are an amazing support and my whole world.
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Copyright © Jennifer Hale 2018
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Jennifer Hale has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work.
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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ISBN: 978-1-78681-520-0