Loon Lake Summers - Book One

The Lake House Inheritance

She came back to sell the lake house. He never stopped waiting for her to come home.

The Lake House Inheritance by Hattie Brewster - illustrated dock at dusk with lake under dusty blue sky

Hattie Brewster writes

Atmospheric lake-country romance about inherited cottages, second chances, and the people you cannot outrun by leaving.

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The Lake House Inheritance

A complete, standalone second-chance romance – Book One of Loon Lake Summers. It ends with a guaranteed happily-ever-after and opens the door to more lake-town love stories.

June Crawford swore she would never return to Loon Lake. But when her grandmother leaves her a collapsing cottage on the water, June has six weeks before the fall rains to save it - or sell it to the developer. The only carpenter who can help her is Reed Asher: the boy she left at nineteen, holding a letter she never opened.

As the cottage comes back to life, so does the question June has spent thirteen years avoiding. Whether the door she closed at nineteen ever really latched. Whether home was waiting on the dock the whole time.

For readers of slow-burn second-chance romance with genuine emotional depth - a lake cottage you can feel in your bones, a steady single-dad hero, found family, and a happily-ever-after worth coming home for.

Heat Level Mid-spice
POV Dual POV
Length ~62k words
Series Book One

"The summer June turned nineteen, she and Reed spent every day together. By August they were on the verge of something neither had words for. Then she panicked - at his need, at her own - and left at dawn without saying goodbye. Carried his letter unopened in her pocket for thirteen years."

"Now her grandmother's cottage belongs to June. Reed is still at Loon Lake, a carpenter who builds homes for the people he loves. The letter is still unopened. The dock is still waiting. And June has six weeks to decide whether to fix the cottage and leave again - or finally, for the first time in thirteen years, come home."

Hattie Brewster writing at her desk near a window

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Hattie Brewster

Hattie Brewster writes lake stories about coming home to the people you cannot outrun by leaving. Her romances unfold in the Adirondack lake country, where inherited cottages hold letters you never opened and the dock you left at nineteen is still waiting for you at thirty.

Her debut, The Lake House Inheritance, follows a Brooklyn architect who inherits her grandmother's collapsing cottage on Loon Lake and discovers that the boy who once spent every summer beside her has become the carpenter she now has to hire to save it. It's a story about screened-in porches, the smell of cedar after rain, and the courage to admit that the door you closed at nineteen never actually latched.

When Hattie is not writing, she is drinking coffee on a porch that needs paint, reading lake-country romance authors in equal measure, and pretending she knows how to repair a wood-canvas canoe. She lives somewhere in upstate New York.

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Where should I start reading Hattie Brewster?
Start with The Lake House Inheritance, Book One of Loon Lake Summers. It is a complete, standalone romance with a full happily-ever-after and the best entry point into the series.
How spicy is The Lake House Inheritance?
Mid-spice, open-door romance - one on-page love scene that is emotionally grounded and tasteful. The focus is slow-burn yearning and an earned reconnection. Written for adult readers.
Is it a standalone or part of a series?
Both. It is a complete romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after, and Book One of the Loon Lake Summers series. Each book follows a different couple in the same lake town, so they can be read in any order.
What is the reading order for Loon Lake Summers?
Book One is The Lake House Inheritance. Additional books in the series feature new couples in the same lake community. Join the newsletter for release dates and updates.
What are the content warnings?
The book contains on-page sexual content (mid-spice), parental loss and grief, and references to past emotional wounds. It is written for adult readers age 18+.
Where can I buy the book?
On Amazon as a Kindle eBook. It is available free with Kindle Unlimited. Join the newsletter for early release information and exclusive updates.

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