Summer with July

In Nina Willow's debut novel, Summer with July, feel-good (NO SPICE) romance mixes with nostalgia and the feeling of summertime at the beach, resulting in an endearing and heart-felt read.July didn’t expect to be a single mother right out of college, but she happens to love the life she and her mother have created for her son, Toby. When an invitation arrives for the wedding of Winnie, her childhood ex-best friend, July, her mother, and her son embark on a trip to Cape Cod and down memory lane to her family’s annual summer vacations. After an unexpected run-in with her first love and an offer to be her date to the wedding, July is forced to confront the events leading up to her traumatic falling out with Winnie and all the ways in which things went wrong.Told in alternating timelines between now and the time since her last summer on Cape Cod, Summer with July navigates the importance and complexities of female friendship, first love, and motherhood.