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A Summer Meant for Two
She came for one summer. He gave her a reason to imagine what came after.
Cecily Holling returns to Santa Aurelia with a camera, one bag, and plans for a summer helping her aunt close the island’s portrait studio. After years of fitting her life around someone else, she has a journey of her own waiting beyond the harbor.
Owen works security at Bellamy House. He notices who comes off every boat, keeps other people safe, and has grown used to being the man at the edge of the room. Cecily is the first arrival in a long time who makes him want to know what happens next.
Between old photographs, harbor walks, and evenings that become harder to end, a temporary stay begins to feel like something more. But loving each other will mean making room for two whole lives—including the parts that take them away from each other.
A warm, slow-burn island romance about independence, belonging, and choosing a future together.
The Bellamy House Novels · Book 3 · 32 chapters and an epilogue
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Off the Southern California coast, the island of Santa Aurelia is far enough out to discourage a casual visit. The Bellamy House Novels follow the people who come to stay at its old family hotel—and the ones who were there all along.
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A Place Beyond the World
Loura Bellamy runs her family’s hotel on Santa Aurelia, an island off the Southern California coast, far enough out to discourage a casual visit. When a man whose face everyone knows rents every room for October and asks that no one make a fuss, she agrees. Bellamy House is very good at leaving people alone.
Julian Mercer arrives with three children, an assistant on the phone, and a life arranged so that nothing ever asks him to stay. He has never been in one place long enough to learn where his daughter wants her chair. A house with a temperamental hot-water system and a woman who will not be managed was not what he booked.
A slow-burn romance of found family and second chances—a woman who has spent years keeping a place for everyone, and the first man to ask where she belongs.
A Place Beyond the World
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