Summer Sessions
A Novel by Dr. Monique L. Rodgers
Sometimes healing begins with one conversation. Sometimes love begins with one second chance.
Genevieve Carter survived war overseas-but the greatest battle of her life waited for her at home.
After escaping an abusive marriage to a decorated military veteran, Genevieve relocates with her young daughter, Ava, to the peaceful coastal town of Harbor Point, hoping to leave fear behind and rebuild the life they deserve. Haunted by trauma and carrying invisible scars, she reluctantly enrolls in a veterans' counseling program, determined to find healing one day at a time.
Her counselor is Dr. Sebastian Hayes-a former Navy SEAL, decorated combat veteran, and respected trauma therapist whose own heart bears the weight of memories he has never fully escaped.
Neither of them realizes they have already met.
Years earlier, they fought side by side on a battlefield where Genevieve, a courageous Navy Corpsman, and Sebastian, an elite SEAL, worked together to save a wounded soldier's life. Time and trauma buried those memories-until danger forces them to remember.
When Genevieve is mistaken for a federal witness connected to her ex-husband's criminal associates, her quiet new life is shattered. As threats escalate and old enemies close in, Sebastian must rely on every skill he learned in combat to protect the woman he cannot bear to lose.
Together they discover that some battles are fought with courage...
Some are won through forgiveness...
And the greatest victories are found in healing the heart.
As faith grows stronger than fear, friendship blossoms into love, and two wounded souls discover that God's grace can restore even the deepest wounds.
Summer Sessions is a powerful story of redemption, resilience, healing, hope, and second chances that will stay with you long after the final page.
Because sometimes the greatest love stories don't begin with fireworks...
They begin with healing.