The Summer He Gave His Mother (When His Family Came First #9)

Gwen has spent twenty-nine years being the flexible one. This summer, she finally has something that belongs to her.

At fifty-four, after four years of predawn swims, Gwen has qualified for the state masters open-water championship. August twenty-first is circled on her calendar. The race can't be postponed. The qualification can't be saved for later.

Then her daughter casually mentions the family schedule for Grandma's recovery.

Gwen's name is written into every weekday from June through August.

Her husband, Wade, has already told everyone yes.

He says his mother needs someone. Gwen works from home. She's good at this. And somehow, in Wade's mind, volunteering his wife became the same thing as volunteering himself.

But not one square on that schedule has his name in it.

Gwen isn't abandoning an eighty-one-year-old woman who needs help. She isn't walking away from her marriage, either.

She's simply done letting everyone else decide what her life is available for.

And if Wade wants to save the marriage they've built over twenty-nine years, he's going to have to learn that loving his family cannot keep costing his wife.

A later-in-life marriage-in-crisis romance with no cheating, a second-chance marriage, an earned grovel, and a hard-won HEA.