The Hour We Keep: A Second Chance Romance – Paperback

The first boy I ever loved never saw me without my clothes on.

There was always a mother coming home in half an hour. Always a little brother in the next room. Always too much of me, and never enough time to be brave.

So I gave Wes Bennett everything else. My secrets. My laugh. Every five o’clock morning in a small-town bakery, the summer we were eighteen. I gave him all of me, except the part I was taught to hide.

Then I broke his heart on purpose, and I never told him why.

Twelve years later, Nora Quinn still wakes at 5:00 a.m. every single day. She tells people it’s for the bread. It isn’t.

Now Wes is back in Sparrow Lake, Michigan, to bury his mother. He has a life on the other side of the world and a fiance who adores him. And his mother has left one last surprise in her will. The lake house belongs to both of them, but only if they restore it together before the last morning of summer.

One summer. One house. One secret Nora swore she would take to her grave.

But some promises never die, and some alarms never stop ringing. The girl who gave away every piece of herself is about to learn the hardest lesson of all.

She was always allowed to keep something for herself.

Even her heart.