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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart — Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Harper Muse
July 2025
On Sale: July 1, 2025
Featuring: Gigi; James; Eloise
368 pages
ISBN: 1400348072
EAN: 9781400348077
Kindle: B0DMJDG7YD
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A heart-warming escape about mother-daughter relationships, small-town dating, and all that guides us home.

Broke and newly unemployed, Gigi Jenkins is heading home to the horse-and-buggy Mackinac Island that she once couldn't wait to leave behind. She's going to be spending the summer with her mother, and she's not sure what that close proximity will do to their already fraught relationship. Almost immediately, they find themselves in a battle of wills, and they agree to play matchmaker for each other. Both women are certain that the other couldn't possibly understand them, so surely these potential connections will fizzle out before they even begin.

Misunderstandings, interference, and near-misses are skillfully wielded. Gigi and James circle each other through the curse of small-town encounters--cornhole tournaments, church fundraisers, and lakeside run-ins--and a fresh nemesis-to-lovers plot plays out. Meanwhile, Eloise feels sparks for the resident-for-the-summer Scottish author that she never thought she'd feel again.

But the greatest love story of the summer is the one between Gigi and her mother, Eloise. As they navigate the world as two single women, staying up late to wait for each other to get home from dates and helping each other pick out outfits and draft texts to their respective suitors, their strained relationship starts to heal as they transition from mother-daughter to confidantes and friends.

With achingly deferred romantic tension and a captivating constellation of characters, Lindsay MacMillan shows it's never too late to change perceptions and reach your hard-won happily ever after.

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