Six Degrees of Separation - June 2025

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest. A book is selected each month as the starting point for us to link to six other books. I go a bit rouge by selecting my own book from the previous months’ Five Star Friday, but still maintain the spirit of the meme.

This Month's Book

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Published by Berkley on May 6, 2025
Age/Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Goodreads

A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different.

I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.

Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.

Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.

Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.

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One Golden Summer

This book features a romance that unfolds on the shores of a lake.

Catch and Keep

Catch and Keep is also a romance that takes place on a lake between two people who share a lot of history.

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

Like Catch and Keep, The Strawberry Patch Pancake House features a single dad romance.

Savor It

Both heroes in Pancake House and Savor It were hotshot chefs trying to start a new restaurant in a small town.

The Bright Spot

The heroines in Savor It and The Bright Spot both have farms with cute animals.

The Simplicity of Cider

The Simplicity of Cider and The Bright Spot both have plots involving saving an orchard.

Dairy Queen

Like Cider, Dairy Queen is set in Wisconsin.

Have you read any of these books?
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