The Summer That Changed Us

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒔 meets 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒕’𝒔 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 with the heart of 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝑼𝒔.

At fifty, Hope Hall has done everything right. She earned a PhD, built a career, and held her marriage together with determination and stubborn denial.

When her life publicly unravels, Hope returns to her hometown in Texas, and the loud, loving, opinionated family who never quite understood her. Surrounded by her four sisters, who make everything bigger, messier, and usually a public spectacle, she expects the chaos, the old grudges, and small-town rivalries that always seem to involve toilet paper and bail money.

What she doesn’t expect is June—her wild, fearless sister, who has spent a decade giving cancer the middle finger. But you can only run from the devil for so long, and what’s coming for June may be the thing Hope’s family can’t survive.

Told with sharp humor, messy love, and the kind of honesty that sneaks up and wrecks you, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝑼𝒔 is a deeply moving, laugh-through-the-tears story about sisters, second chances, and what it really means to show up when it matters most.