The Summer You Owned A Cottage: A Cozy Adventure Where You Choose the Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186792192)

You've inherited a cottage from a great-aunt you met twice. What you do with the summer is entirely up to you.

You met Vivian Hartwell exactly twice - a tall woman in a green coat who did not bend down to talk to children, and whom you liked enormously anyway. Now she has left you Foxglove Cottage, at the end of a lane in the sleepy village of Little Wickham, along with a leaking roof, a garden that should be a wilderness and somehow isn't, and a single line in strong, slanting ink: Stay the summer before you decide anything.

You could sign the developer's papers and never see the place at all. Or you could lift the latch, let the gate sing you in, and find out why a great-aunt you barely knew chose you - out of everyone.

This is an interactive novel, and every choice is yours. Mend the roof, or wander into the village and its failing little bookshop. Chase the secret the whole place is keeping - the locked shed, the name scratched from the flower-show records, the letters no one was ever meant to read - or simply keep the bees, and let the summer keep you. Let someone in, or discover that your own good company is the best of all. Follow the numbered choices through the village fête, the shortest night, and the storm, and find where your summer leads.

There are fifteen ways it can end. Some are golden, some are sweet, some ache a little - and one stays hidden until you've found the whole of her. There is no wrong way through.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Cozy, gentle stories - cottagecore, English villages, gardens, bees, and buried secrets, with no gore and no grim stakes
• Interactive, choose-your-path fiction written for grown-up readers
• A slow-burn mystery, two possible romances, and a solo path every bit as satisfying
• Books you can read again and again - a completely different summer each time
• A warm, giftable escape for birthdays, Mother's Day, and Christmas

Pour the tea. Lift the latch. The summer is yours.