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She knows how to restore houses.
He’s the only one who’s ever made her want to restore her heart.
Vivian Mills knows how to restore anything except the life she lost.
Once the face of a hit design show, Vivian built her career transforming broken spaces into something beautiful. But behind the success was a life quietly unraveling: a marriage that ended in betrayal, a future that slipped out of reach, and a loss she’s never been able to put into words.
Now, a high-profile renovation in the Hamptons is her chance to start over. Keep things simple. Keep things controlled. And above all, don’t get attached.
Until Ethan Cross, a retired U.S. Navy Commander.
They met once before, in a place meant for people learning how to live with what they couldn’t fix. Back then, keeping her distance was easy. Now, working side by side on a house that feels a little too much like her own heart, it’s anything but.
Ethan is steady in all the ways she isn’t. But somehow, he makes her want things she swore she’d buried for good.
As the summer unfolds, Vivian and Ethan discover a collection of letters hidden away for decades, revealing a love story that began during the Korean War. Through words of love, faith, Scripture, and prayer, his aunt and uncle’s story slowly comes to life. Their story was shaped by separation, uncertainty, and the courage to hold on to hope. As Vivian becomes drawn into a love story from another time, something inside her begins to come back to life, too.
The hardest thing she’ll ever have to rebuild is the part of herself that dares to want him.
Restoration Summer is a deeply emotional story about grief, second chances, and the quiet, powerful way love asks us to be brave again.
If you like no spice, kisses only, clean stories that are deeply layered, cinematic, and swoony, you’re in the right place.
*Please Note: Vivian’s grief is over the loss of a child (in her past, not on the page)*
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She knows how to restore houses.
He’s the only one who’s ever made her want to restore her heart.
Vivian Mills knows how to restore anything except the life she lost.
Once the face of a hit design show, Vivian built her career transforming broken spaces into something beautiful. But behind the success was a life quietly unraveling: a marriage that ended in betrayal, a future that slipped out of reach, and a loss she’s never been able to put into words.
Now, a high-profile renovation in the Hamptons is her chance to start over. Keep things simple. Keep things controlled. And above all, don’t get attached.
Until Ethan Cross, a retired U.S. Navy Commander.
They met once before, in a place meant for people learning how to live with what they couldn’t fix. Back then, keeping her distance was easy. Now, working side by side on a house that feels a little too much like her own heart, it’s anything but.
Ethan is steady in all the ways she isn’t. But somehow, he makes her want things she swore she’d buried for good.
As the summer unfolds, Vivian and Ethan discover a collection of letters hidden away for decades, revealing a love story that began during the Korean War. Through words of love, faith, Scripture, and prayer, his aunt and uncle’s story slowly comes to life. Their story was shaped by separation, uncertainty, and the courage to hold on to hope. As Vivian becomes drawn into a love story from another time, something inside her begins to come back to life, too.
The hardest thing she’ll ever have to rebuild is the part of herself that dares to want him.
Restoration Summer is a deeply emotional story about grief, second chances, and the quiet, powerful way love asks us to be brave again.
If you like no spice, kisses only, clean stories that are deeply layered, cinematic, and swoony, you’re in the right place.
*Please Note: Vivian’s grief is over the loss of a child (in her past, not on the page)*
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