When Summer Was Ours (An Arbor Flats Love Story) Book One: Piper

She left to build a life. She came back to remember who she really was.

At 23, Piper Hart has a stable job as an ultrasound technician, a tiny apartment in the city, and a carefully constructed life that looks good on paper. But when her younger siblings beg for one more summer at the family farm in Arbor Flats, Piper finds herself back in the sleepy town she once called home where the days are slow, the air smells like honeysuckle, and the past never stays buried for long.

She hasn't been back in years, not since her mother dragged her away after the divorce. And definitely not since she tried to forget about Wesley Lakes the quiet, blue-eyed boy from the farm next door who once meant more to her than she ever admitted.

Now Wesley is grown, still rooted in Arbor Flats, and even more impossible to ignore. Their childhood connection flickers back to life just as Piper learns a devastating truth: her father is being pressured to sell the family farm to make way for luxury condos. Developers see land. Piper sees memories, legacy and the last safe piece of her fractured world.

As the summer heat rises, Piper is forced to choose between the life she's built and the one she left behind. And Wesley? He might just be the reason she stops running for good.

A small-town summer romance about second chances, deep roots, and finding your way back to where you belong.