That One Summer

In one unforgettable summer, a grieving traveler arrives at a quiet countryside home while searching for his missing fiancée. There he meets Almaz, a young woman who has spent her life dreaming of the world beyond her village. What begins as a moment of shelter slowly becomes a dangerous love neither of them expected. Together they leave everything behind and journey west through rain, hunger, memory, and rising floodwaters toward the mighty Abay River.
But the farther they travel, the more they discover that love is not always salvation and some roads lead only toward loss. Set against the haunting beauty of Ethiopia's highlands, That One Summer is a lyrical story of longing, freedom, grief, and the choices that shape a lifetime. A heartbreaking literary romance about the kind of love that survives even death.