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Forgotten Summer

In the Spotlight, Every Secret Casts a Shadow

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Pub Date 4 Jun 2026 | Archive Date 29 Jul 2026


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Description

Hollywood's biggest movie star Summer Holiday's career crashes as her latest film becomes the most expensive flop in cinema history. Facing bankruptcy and industry exile, she's offered one last chance-star in a Netflix reality series that promises to solve an impossible mystery.

Fifteen years ago, Summer fled her Texas hometown after a tragic accident, leaving behind high school heartthrob, Taft Williams, and a web of secrets. Now, Summer's striking ex-boyfriend has no memory of their relationship, friendship, romance, or even her existence. As cameras follow Summer's return to Silsbee, Texas, she must navigate hostile interviews, small-town gossip, and her own buried trauma to uncover the truth.

Are her memories too painful to face, her secrets too damning to reveal? As the show becomes a global phenomenon, Summer realizes the price of redemption might be higher than she's willing to pay-and the man she's trying to save might be beyond her reach.

This ultimate beach read blends contemporary fiction, romantic-comedy, sharp dialogue, and family drama. Forgotten Summer allows readers to explore the cost of fame, the power of forgiveness, and the courage required to unlock the past.

Hollywood's biggest movie star Summer Holiday's career crashes as her latest film becomes the most expensive flop in cinema history. Facing bankruptcy and industry exile, she's offered one last...


Advance Praise

"The sentence experimentation, conscious breaking of rules, beautiful alliterations, all make me think I'm reading a guy who thinks like a Texan and writes like Elmore Leonard." -Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn mystery/suspense novels

"Forgotten Summer explores themes of genuine connection versus surface relationship." -Leah Miles, author of Baby ConSealed 

"The sentence experimentation, conscious breaking of rules, beautiful alliterations, all make me think I'm reading a guy who thinks like a Texan and writes like Elmore Leonard." -Cam Torrens...


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ISBN 9781685137557
PRICE $6.99 (USD)
PAGES 368

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