4.5/5.0 Reader Rating on Amazon ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Readers are loving Restoration Summer:
“Kimberly did it again. I love this series!…”
“Kimberly knows how to write with depth and understanding of how her characters feel…”
“Another book of hers that I could not put down. I can’t wait for the next one!…”
“Her words are wise through the telling of a story. You feel every emotion of the people in her books…”

She knows how to restore houses.
He’s the only one who’s ever made her want to restore her heart.

Vivian Mills knows how to restore anything except the life she lost.

Once the face of a hit design show, Vivian built her career transforming broken spaces into something beautiful. But behind the success was a life quietly unraveling: a marriage that ended in betrayal, a future that slipped out of reach, and a loss she’s never been able to put into words.

Now, a high-profile renovation in the Hamptons is her chance to start over. Keep things simple. Keep things controlled. And above all, don’t get attached.

Until Ethan Cross. A retired U.S. Navy Commander.

They met once before, in a place meant for people learning how to live with what they couldn’t fix. Back then, keeping her distance was easy. Now, working side by side on a house that feels a little too much like her own heart, it’s anything but.

Ethan is steady in all the ways she isn’t. But somehow, he makes her want things she swore she’d buried for good.

As the summer unfolds, Vivian and Ethan discover a collection of letters hidden away for decades, revealing a love story that began during the Korean War. Through words of love, faith, Scripture, and prayer, another couple’s story slowly comes to life, one shaped by separation, uncertainty, and the courage to hold on to hope. And as Vivian becomes drawn into a love story from another time, something inside her begins to come back to life, too.

The hardest thing she’ll ever have to rebuild is the part of herself that dares to want him.

Restoration Summer is a deeply emotional story about grief, second chances, and the powerful way love asks us to be brave again.

PLEASE NOTE: Vivian’s grief is over the loss of a child (in her past, not on the page)

If you like no spice or profanity and kisses only clean stories that are deeply layered, cinematic, and swoony, you’re in the right place.

TROPES: Second Chance • Celebrity Heroine • Forced Proximity • Grumpy/Sunshine (she’s the grump) • Military Hero • Later in Life • Christian Themes • Grief and Healing • Beach Town • Slow Burn • He Falls First • Hidden Past • Inheritance • Friends to Lovers • Found Family • Golf • Protector Hero • Emotionally Safe Hero • Summer Setting • Contemporary Setting • Redemption • Historical Love Letters