The Last Days of Summer: The best feel-good summer read for 2017

The Last Days of Summer: The best feel-good summer read for 2017
Sophie Pembroke

‘easy to fall in love with, it’s delightfully warm and captivating’ - LovereadingHome at last…Summers at Rosewood were always about cocktails on the terrace and cream teas in the rose garden. Until two years ago, when Saskia broke her family apart…Receiving an invite to the most exclusive garden party in the country, Saskia knows she won’t be welcomed with open arms. But this is one event she can’t avoid, no matter how much she would like to hide from her past. It is finally time to face the music!Arriving back at Rosewood everything looks the same, but under the surface family secrets threaten to disturb the picture-perfect family celebration.Spend your summer at Rosewood, full of family, friendship and a chance to heal your heart.

SOPHIE PEMBROKE writes very British romance for Mills & Boon / Harlequin Romance, Avon and HQ. She has been dreaming, reading and writing romance ever since she read her first Mills & Boon as part of her English Literature degree at Lancaster University, so getting to write romantic fiction for a living really is a dream come true!

Born in Abu Dhabi, Sophie grew up in Wales and now lives in a little Hertfordshire market town with her scientist husband, her incredibly imaginative eight-year-old daughter, and her adventurous, adorable toddler son.

In Sophie’s world, happy is for ever after, everything stops for tea, and there’s always time for one more page…

Website: www.SophiePembroke.com (http://www.SophiePembroke.com)

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2016

Copyright © Sophie Pembroke 2016

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E-book Edition © April 2017 ISBN: 9780008193140

Version date: 2018-06-08

In memory of my own grandparents, Elfed and Olwen Whitley.

For everything you gave me that helped make me who I am today.

I miss you, every second.

Contents

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About the Author (#ucad6a272-4cd3-5ad1-9613-070932db2c35)

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Dedication (#u58e70abf-3e10-53bd-8219-a10eb8bf38d7)

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“Home isn’t a place, Grace. It’s a feeling. An overwhelming emotion that, once you’ve felt it, you can’t live without.”

“A bit like love, then?” Grace asked.

I nodded. “Sometimes, I think they might be one and the same thing.”