The Summer Between Us

Some wounds heal slowly—and some summers change everything.

Rowan Delaney was supposed to be a surf legend. Instead, she's running a modest surf shack in Waikiki, watching the waves she once conquered from a careful, heartbreaking distance. Her career-ending injury stole her identity, and she's still figuring out who she is without the ocean as her stage. Then Kelsey walks in—a quietly determined little girl on vacation with hungry eyes fixed on the whitecaps—and something in Rowan stirs back to life. Teaching her feels like breathing again. Until Kelsey's father shows up.

Garrett is everything Rowan can't stand: buttoned-up, overprotective, and convinced that a former athlete with a broken record is the wrong person to be influencing his daughter. He's built his whole life around control—his career, his routines, the careful walls he's constructed since becoming a single parent. Rowan is chaos in board shorts, and he wants no part of her.

Except Kelsey is thriving. And somewhere between sunset lessons and reluctant conversations on the sand, the line between frustrating and fascinating starts to blur in ways neither of them planned for.

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst delivers a sun-soaked, emotionally rich romance about two people who are absolutely wrong for each other—until suddenly, stubbornly, undeniably, they're not. One summer. Two people. Zero guarantees.

Will they choose the lives they mapped out, or the love that rewrote the map entirely?