The Summer We Learned To Fly

North Carolina, 1999.When 19-year-old Elise Monroe loses her mother without warning, she’s left with nothing but questions—and a cryptic inscription tucked inside the pages of a hidden book. Determined to find answers, Elise follows the fragile thread south to North Carolina, chasing the faint echoes of a history deliberately buried.There, in a land veiled in secrets, she crosses paths with Adrian Evers—a reclusive man living deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, harboring wounds of his own. In his riverside cabin, once the heart of a forgotten diving horse show, Elise finds an unexpected refuge.As summer deepens, the wilds of the hills, the steady belonging of the horses, and Adrian himself begin to mend all that was broken.Though the past never stays buried, and as the truth begins to surface—about the land, about Adrian, and her own tangled legacy, Elise must confront the most challenging question of all: can the woman she truly is—and the woman she is becoming—ever coexist?A lush, lyrical novel of healing, legacy, and the kind of love that calls you home. A true Southern classic in the making. Read more