Summit Soul Surge

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Premise

At 48, Elena Harper, a sharp-witted former Chicago litigator freshly scarred by a hollow divorce, trades her high-rise isolation for the mist-shrouded ridges of Raven’s Gap in the Appalachian Smokies, where she’s inherited her late aunt’s crumbling Wisteria Inn. Haunted by the abrupt end to her youthful summer romance three decades earlier—ripped away by family secrets she never fully understood—Elena arrives seeking solace in the overgrown gardens and sagging porches, only for her SUV to stall dead in the town square at dusk, stranding her amid suspicious stares from locals who remember the girl who fled. When rugged woodworker Harlan Crowe—silver-streaked hair framing eyes that still pierce her soul—steps from the shadows to jump-start her car, a static jolt unlocks buried memories of their stolen kisses under starlit overlooks, igniting a second-chance spark threatened by unearthed family betrayals, a corrupt deputy’s push to condemn the Inn for corporate development, and a ledger revealing a generations-old land grab. With the valley’s soul and their fragile reunion on the line, Elena must wield her legal savvy and long-denied heart to restore the Inn, confront the past that tore them apart, and claim a love that promises midlife redemption amid the wisteria’s defiant bloom.

Summary

Structural blueprint for Book 13 of the Smoky Summit Souls series.