About the book
Six years of seeing the world. A lifetime of never leaving the lake.
Travel writer Priya Anand has never stayed anywhere for long. Sam Hale, the lake guide everyone leans on, has never left. She arrives in Larkspur Lake expecting a week, but when her article goes viral, visitors pour into town and her plans to leave fall apart.
Sam has lived his entire life at his family's lakeside outfitter, measuring the lake at first light and keeping a marine-biology dream tucked away in a drawer. He has never been on a plane, and nobody ever asked him to stay. He just did.
Then a job offer with a start date arrives, and a stubborn, slow-building attraction must answer a bigger question: how does a woman who has never belonged anywhere learn to stay, and how does a man who has always stayed step into his own life?
The Long Way Back is a warm, small-town romance with a guaranteed happy ending.
Opposites Attract • The One Who Stays • Found Family • Guaranteed HEA
Moderate heat: closed-door intimate scenes, no explicit content. Each book in the series follows a different Hale sibling and reads as a complete standalone.
