The Summer She Stayed
Sometimes the Greatest Adventure Is Finally Coming Home.By Sienna Vale
Length5h 43m
About this audiobook
She built a life around leaving. He built one around staying.
At fifty-one, acclaimed travel writer Eliza Rowan has spent fifteen years convinced that freedom lives in airports and hotel rooms she'll never see twice. Then a broken ankle strands her in the quiet Cape Cod village of Gull's Landing for the summer, and her itinerary stops cold.
Daniel Mercer, the village's harbormaster, has never left this coastline. He believes love is measured by showing up, keeping promises, and leaving the harbor light on. As friendship deepens into unexpected romance, Eliza must face the question she's dodged since her divorce: has she been traveling all these years—or running?
The Summer She Stayed is a slow-burn, later-in-life romance about second chances, chosen family, and discovering that home isn't the place you never leave—it's the place you choose to return to.
Come to Gull's Landing... and find that the greatest adventure may be coming home.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length5 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER ONE
16CHAPTER SIXTEEN
2CHAPTER TWO
17CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
3CHAPTER THREE
18CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
4CHAPTER FOUR
19CHAPTER NINETEEN
5CHAPTER FIVE
20CHAPTER TWENTY
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6CHAPTER SIX
21CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
7CHAPTER SEVEN
22CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
8CHAPTER EIGHT
23CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
9CHAPTER NINE
24CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
10CHAPTER TEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
11CHAPTER ELEVEN
26CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
12CHAPTER TWELVE
27CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
13CHAPTER THIRTEEN
28CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14CHAPTER FOURTEEN
29EPILOGUE
15CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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