A Long Sweet Summer by Elizabeth Carrie

The balmy warmth of a summer breeze brings only anguished memories to twenty-eight-year-old Owen Barrett, left reeling and devastated after his wife abruptly abandoned him and their newborn daughter ten years ago.

As months crept by and Owen’s daughter grew in inches of height and tousled hair, Owen grew in stubborn seclusion of his soul.

Dedicated to single fatherhood and viciously afraid of ever trusting another woman with his heart again, Owen believes he’s sworn off relationships for good.

Until the day he meets Molly.

Charming and coy, the amateur baker throws into sweet upheaval all that Owen steadfastly believes to be true about life and love and pleasure – things Owen is no longer sure he deserves.

However, as Owen’s feelings bloom and the bliss of a new relationship takes uncertain roots, so does his overwhelming confusion and guilt.

Can he or his daughter handle a new woman in their lives after the last left them so quickly, or will the carefully crafted walls of Owen’s heart keep true happiness and love at bay?

This long summer will be the one that changes Owen to the core.