That Summer

When all seems lost, do you give up forever or fight with all you have?After a car crash tore them apart, Nate makes a heart-breaking decision to walk away from his dream to win back Aurora's heart. When she learns of his intentions, she hatches a plan to stop his career-ending announcement.With only a few short weeks to get her shit together, Aurora must find the will to believe in herself and push beyond her comfort zones. Needing serious support, she reaches out to the only other person she trusts with her life-Nate's younger brother, Lucas.Through therapy and relapses, Aurora and Lucas become best friends. However, highly charged emotions bubble to the surface threatening both the friendship and everything she's battled in effort to save Nate.Will her plan work, or will it cause her to self-destruct?That Summer is the expanded portion of Duly Noted readers craved.A story of love and courage, and the blossoming of a beautiful friendship between two lost souls. It is a standalone novel, but it's highly recommended to read Duly Noted first. USA TODAY bestselling author H.M. Shander is a star-gazing, romantic at heart who once attended Space Camp and wanted to pilot the space shuttle, and not just any STS – specifically Columbia. However, the only shuttle she operates in her real world is the #momtaxi; a reliable electric car that transports her two kids to school or work and all their various sporting events. When she's not commandeering LeBolt, you can find the elementary school librarian surrounded by classes of children as she reads the best storybooks in multiple voices. After she's tucked her endearing kids into bed and kissed her trophy husband goodnight, she moonlights as a contemporary romance novelist; the writer of sassy heroines and sweet, swoon-worthy heroes who find love in the darkest of places.If you want to know when her next heart-filled journey is coming out, you can follow her on Twitter(@HM_Shander), Facebook (hmshander), or check out her website at www.hmshander.com. Meet Aurora, who suffers from PTSD and a drug addiction, and read as she grows and overcomes her greatest fears with the sweetest men by her side.