She came for a season and stayed for a lifetime.

Amanda arrives in Durban, counting the days until she can return to the familiar, gray safety of Chicago. To her, South Africa is just a temporary detour – a vibrant but fleeting intermission in her real life. Then she meets Leo. With a crooked grin and a soul rooted in the red soil of the coast, Leo pulls Amanda out of the margins and into the centre of the frame. Through his eyes, every sunset becomes a promise, and the salt-stung shoreline becomes the first place she has ever felt truly seen. But summer is a finite thing. As the departure date looms and ten thousand miles of ocean threaten to pull them apart, Amanda is faced with a choice that will redefine her world: Is what they found on the shoreline just a beautiful memory, or is it the beginning of a story worth crossing the globe to keep? Spanning three continents, ‘The Shoreline That Held Our Hearts’ is a sweeping YA romance about first love, the courage to be brave, and discovering that “home” isn’t a coordinate on a map, it’s the person standing beside you.