Warm
Carley Fortune · 2025
Alice never anticipated Charlie Florek, the man who would finally pull her from behind the safety of her camera lens. After a single, life-changing summer at her grandmother’s cottage in Barry’s Bay when she was seventeen, Alice return to the lake a decade later to care for her injured grandmother, Nan.
Their quiet retreat is quickly disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow speedboat driven by Charlie, the former teenager from Alice's most famous photograph who has grown into a shameless, charming flirt. While their sun-slanted days and warm nights on the water provide a balm for Alice’s restless soul, she finds herself increasingly vulnerable under Charlie’s piercing green gaze.
As a photographer, Alice is used to observing others, but she is completely unprepared for a man who looks past her equipment and truly sees her in return, making her wonder if her heart can survive the very magic she came back to find.
If you love contemporary with summer romance, opposites attract, small town, you enjoy emotionally intense stories that hit you right in the feels, then One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune is the book for you.
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune has a spice level of 3/5 (warm — some steamy scenes).
Yes, One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune is a standalone novel.
One Golden Summer features these tropes: summer romance, opposites attract, small town, forced proximity, slow burn.
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune is a Contemporary novel.
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