Exclusive Extract: GP’s Fresh Start Summer by Louisa Heaton

This summer, readers everywhere are falling for sun-soaked settings, slow-burn chemistry and stories that feel like a warm breeze off the ocean – and GP’s Fresh Start Summer is exactly that kind of romance. The kind that wraps around you like sunshine and simply refuses to let go.

Set in the idyllic seaside community of Westcombe Bay, this is the story of Zoey – a woman who has spent years being everything everyone needed her to be, quietly losing herself along the way. But a brilliant, quietly compelling new colleague is about to make Zoey question everything she thought she knew about herself and about love…

If small-town romance full of second chances, self-discovery and all the slow-burn-induced butterflies is your thing, this sapphic love story deserves the very top of your TBR! We’re so excited that we’re giving you an exclusive first look – completely free – so you can fall for Zoey and Erin’s story before everyone else does.

New beginnings, beachside!

GP Zoey has coasted through life, always doing what was expected: she’s the perfect daughter, sibling, wife…before her husband passed away two years ago. Moving to sunny Westcombe Bay to help her pregnant sister, she never imagined she’d meet someone who makes her throw caution to the wind. And more surprisingly, that person is a woman—her new colleague, Dr Erin! With Erin reeling from a recent betrayal and Zoey in uncharted romantic waters, their growing attraction might not be plain sailing. Yet, could Erin be Zoey’s safe harbour?

Perfect for fans of:

🏡 Small-town romance

⏳ Slow burn

🌈 LGBTQIA+

A sneak preview of GP’s Fresh Start Summer

‘Nice to meet you, Zoey.’

‘You too.’ Zoey watched her neighbour and new colleague walk down the path. She moved with a surety and a confidence and very briefly Zoey felt envious of her. Erin seemed to be a woman who knew who she was. Who had found her place in the world and was very comfortable there, whereas Zoey felt like she was back at the beginning. Forging a new path in life, uncertain of where it would lead or who she even was! She’d spent so long pleasing others and fitting into everyone’s expectations of her, that she’d lost who she used to be and she hoped that by moving here, she would rediscover just who had been hiding all these years beneath layers of dutiful domesticity.

Maybe one day she would be like Erin? Her own version, anyway. And maybe Monday wouldn’t be so scary now? Because she already knew someone. Someone whom she could feel safe with?

Let’s hope we really do get on.

Because I’ve got to live right next door to her, if I don’t!

Get your copy of GP’s Fresh Start Summer here!


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