Stone Fruit Summer

From the author of THE GATHER SERIES...

He spent seven years feeding everybody but himself.

Chef Dillion Duckworth III can braise an oxtail until it surrenders, run the most exclusive restaurant in Westonberry, and smile for a magazine that just named him Most Eligible Bachelor.

What he cannot do is tell his best friend he’s been in love with her since the day she walked into his kitchen out of the rain — soaked to the bone, with the wrong order and no apology for it.

Seven years of holding the door. Seven years of picking up the phone at 2 a.m. Seven years of watching a woman he’d burn the world for keep choosing a man who wouldn’t cross the street for her.

Then one Valentine’s night forced his hand, and what’s between him and Aurelia has been curdling quietly for four months since.

Now it’s summer on Everhart Hollow, the island where the wealthy summer and everybody’s grandmother owns a house with a name.

Dillion has brought Madeline Dubois to his family’s estate.

She’s beautiful, she’s certain about him, and she’s asking for the one thing he swore he could finally give somebody: a clean start, with nothing simmering underneath.

He almost believes he can do it.

But summer in Roena County means storm season. And the thing about an island is that the ferry runs both ways.

Stone Fruit Summer is a steamy, food-drenched, all-male-POV Black contemporary romance about the cost of loving somebody right, the mess of loving somebody late, and the summer that finally forced a good man to choose. Guaranteed happily ever after. No cliffhanger.

Turn the first page and take the ferry.