Summer in a Bottle

Dumped by her fiance, upon returning to her coastal North Carolina home town, Lyla Dune opens the time capsule she buried the summer after high school. As events from that past summer are seemingly recreated in the present, Lyla must confront her past regrets in the hope of creating a brighter future. THis moving tale of self-acceptance with a thread of romance by bestselling author Annie Rains is perfect for fans of Josie Silver and Rebecca Serle. In this tender, uplifting novel, a young woman returns to her North Carolina hometown hoping to make new memories, but finds history repeating itself—literally . . . Dumped by her fiancé, opinion columnist Lyla Dune returns to small-town Echo Cove to heal, and to help her parents prep their house for sale. When she decides to open a time capsule she buried in high school, she finds a diary filled with memorable moments from the last summer she spent at home, right before college. Some of the events feel like they happened yesterday. That’s normal. Not so normal is that they actually start happening all over again . . . Lyla gets a flat tire in the same spot and is saved by the same person. The same movie is playing at the theater. Her house has the same leak it once had. As her current summer increasingly mirrors that last one, Lyla worries it will end just as with a category 3 hurricane—and with losing Travis, the best friend she was always secretly in love with. If only she hadn’t been too scared to admit it. She revisits other fears too, like the fear of rejection that led her to abandon her passion for fiction writing. And when she reconnects with Travis, Lyla becomes certain that unless she does what her younger self was unable to do, she’ll suffer the same regrets. But if this time around she can gather her courage, maybe the life that was falling apart when she arrived will fall back together—even better than before.Praise for Annie Rains’ The Charmed Friends of Trove Isle “Hits it out of the park with all the feels . . . 100% recommend!” —Jeanette Escudero, author of The Apology Project “Magic shines in the pages.” —Heather Webber, USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe “A hint of magic and a heaping of friendship . . . I love this charming book!” —Tif Marcelo, USA Today bestselling author of When Jasmine Blooms