The Past That Made Us

<p>Some goodbyes don't last forever-especially in a town like St. Bell.</p><p></p><p>Millie Carpenter has built her life around control. A work-obsessed loner she's long believed the only person she can count on is herself-a belief shaped by a painful childhood and years of estrangement. But when a cancer diagnosis shatters her carefully ordered world she's forced to accept help from the last person she ever expected: her mother.</p><p></p><p>Returning to the seaside town of St. Bell Maine means confronting everything Millie thought she'd left behind-old grief buried memories and the man who once held her heart. The golden boy turned lobsterman who vanished when she needed him most.</p><p></p><p>As chemo drains her strength Millie faces more than just the physical toll of illness. Long-suppressed wounds begin to resurface-and so do the people who might help her heal if she can find the courage to let them.</p><p></p><p>Now with the biggest fight of her life ahead Millie must choose: keep running from the past or embrace the messy beautiful possibility of second chances.</p>