House by the Water

A Novel of Second Chances, and Finding Home

By: Rebecca Hartley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A lakeside camp. A second chance with the man she never quite forgot. A new beginning built one repaired room at a time.

Hannah Mercer is supposed to be restoring a camp by the water—not reconsidering her whole life.

Bellhaven was meant to become a safe place for grieving families, and Hannah has thrown herself into the work with everything she has. But between donor meetings, repair lists, county deadlines, and caring for her daughter, keeping control is getting harder.

Then Gabriel is suddenly part of the work. Familiar. Steady. Hard to ignore. As the camp takes shape room by room, Hannah is forced to face the kind of future she stopped letting herself imagine.

The House by the Water blends second-chance romance, found family, single-mother emotion, and a deeply satisfying restoration setting in a clean, heartfelt contemporary story about grief, hope, and choosing love without betraying the past.

If you love tender small-town romance, healing fiction, and stories where home is rebuilt from the ground up, this novel is for you.