Back to the Bay: A Small-Town Second Chance Romance (The Sylvan Lake Series, Book 1)

Ten years ago, she left Sylvan Lake and she left her first love. Now she has to go back. Sarah Langley is twenty-eight, and she has spent almost a decade away from the lake where she grew up. Her childhood best friend is getting married and asks Sarah to be her maid-of-honour. She also mentions that Cole is the best man.

Cole Delaney lived three houses down the shore from Sarah as a teenager. They grew up on the same water. They spent every summer together and eventually fell in love. After high school graduation, Sarah left to go to University and never really came back; however, the lake never left her, and neither did her first love. Ten days at home. One wedding. And the man who still might have her whole heart.

Told across two timelines, the golden summers of their teens and the cold clear light of the present, Back to the Bay is a slow-burn, deeply felt second-chance romance about the people we’re formed by, the words we can’t take back, and whether you can ever truly go home to a place, or a person, you spent ten years running from.

For readers of Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After and Emily Henry’s Happy Place—a lake-town love story about first love, lost time, and the summers that never quite let us go. Set on the real shores of Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Tropes:
* Second chance romance
* The one that got away
* Small town homecoming
* Dual timeline / first love
* He stayed / she left
* Forced proximity (best friend’s wedding)