Summer for keeps
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Last published Tue, Jul 22, 2025
Madison Hayes was a sports journalist who worked at the ESPN office in Toronto. She was work-driven and a big reader. She worked with her best friend, which helped. But after her long-term boyfriend had broken up with her, she had been out of it at work.
That's why her boss sends her to PEI for the summer. At a stranger's house, of course.
Matthew Stringer is the stranger. Matthew is a contractor in Prince Edward Island. He travels all over the island and has never had a day that looks the same. He loves adventures and not planning a single thing.
When Madison arrives at the house, there's an instant attraction. But they ignore it, I mean, she is still surviving her breakup, and he's too busy with work to focus on love.
Both the walls in the house start to push them together as the summer goes on. Will they survive it? Or will there be another broken heart by the end of the summer?
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