Beschrijving

Ten years ago, Jace Calloway left Cedarwood Falls without real explanation—just a goodbye that said too little and a silence that said too much. Lena Marsh watched him go, built something beautiful in his absence, and made her peace with it.

Or so she told herself.

Now Jace is back—not passing through or visiting, but staying. He’s bought the old Ridgeline property and plans to build a resort. The last thing he expects is to find Lena Marsh at every town meeting, asking the right questions in just the right way, making it impossible to ignore what he left behind.

Lena isn’t angry. That would be easier. Instead, she’s careful, precise, and professional, and determined to protect the town she loves from the kind of development that hollows a place out and leaves the bones. She’ll work with him if she has to. She’ll ask the hard questions. She’ll hold the line.

What she won’t do is make it easy for him.

What she didn’t expect was that he wouldn’t want her to.

Second Chance at the Summit is a slow-burn contemporary romance about the courage to build something that lasts—a business, a community, a life, a love. It’s about those who stay, those who leave, and the work of finding your way back to both.

It’s about a bookshop on Main Street with a shelf for coming-back stories.

It’s about a valley that welcomes those who belong.

It’s about second chances—not as shortcuts, but as the harder, truer thing: choosing to begin again, fully aware of the cost, and deciding it’s worth it.

For readers who believe the best stories end with coming home.