Summer

Charity Royall, bored and stifled in a small mountain village, awakens to passion when a cultivated stranger arrives from the city. Her intense romance becomes a collision of class, desire, and the dark secrets of her own origins. As the seasons turn, she must face the consequences of her choices and the harsh realities of the life she tried to escape. A searing portrait of female awakening, this novel challenges the boundaries of freedom and belonging.