The Port Collins Summer Series
Welcome to Port Collins—a coastal town of sandy beaches, ocean bluffs, summer love, and stories waiting to unfold.
This young adult romance series follows characters navigating love, loss, friendship, family, and the uncertain path to adulthood. With dreamy seaside settings, emotional storytelling, and romances that capture the excitement and vulnerability of first love, the Port Collins Summer Series invites readers to return summer after summer to a place that feels like home.
Set against the coastal beauty of Port Collins, Now & Then is a deeply emotional novel about three lifelong friends—Emma, Avery, and Seth—torn apart by time, circumstance, and the fragility of life.
When Emma is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, the present collides with the past as she navigates her final season surrounded by the people who shaped her youth—most unexpectedly, her former love, Seth.
Told in dual timelines that weave between sun-drenched summers of young love and the bittersweet reality of saying goodbye, Now & Then explores the enduring bonds of friendship, the pull of first love, and what it means to be truly known. As Emma’s world narrows, her heart reopens, forcing her to reckon with the choices that brought her here—and the love that never fully left.
With echoes of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Forever, Interrupted and the emotional nuance of Josie Silver’s One Day in December, Now & Then will appeal to readers who crave stories about love that lingers, friendships that defy all odds, and summer love stories.