After her boyfriend enlists in the Army without including her in the decision, eighteen-year-old Samantha retreats to Salmon Creek Beach. There, she falls asleep and experiences six vivid years filled with college, culinary ambition, heartbreak, and a complicated love with former Navy serviceman Kit Cooper.
Then she wakes up.
Only hours have passed.
When Samantha begins college and meets Kit exactly as she remembers him, her impossible vision starts becoming reality. But this time, she knows where the current once carried her. As love, career, family, and familiar choices collide, Samantha must decide whether the future is destined to repeat—or whether she can rewrite it.
Summers at Salmon Creek turns the idea of seeing the future into something far more personal: what would you change if you knew exactly where your choices could lead? Samantha remembers love, heartbreak, professional success, and six years of waiting for someone else to choose her.
Given another chance, she must discover what happens when she stops living according to that map. Blending romance, emotional growth, family expectations, culinary ambition, and an intriguing vision of an unlived future, the novel explores the difference between fate and choice, and asks whether real freedom begins when we stop demanding certainty from what comes next.