Sign-In
Cart
The Last Summer at Cinema Dalia
Paperback
Series: Cinema Dalia, Book 1
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 408
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She came home to sell the cinema. The man she left behind has ninety days to make her stay.
Eleven years after leaving Essaouira, Morocco, Leila Benali returns with a plan: settle her grandmother's estate, accept a developer's offer, and go back to the independent future she has fought to build in London. Cinema Dalia is drowning in debt. Selling it is logical. Safe. Final.
Then she discovers her grandmother's last condition: the crumbling seaside cinema has ninety days to prove it can survive. And the man determined to save it is Samir Alaoui-her childhood best friend, her unfinished almost-love, and the one person who still knows how to reach the heart she keeps guarded.
Samir has spent years holding Dalia together with borrowed money, stubborn hope, and his own hands. He has never forgotten the silence Leila left behind. Now, forced to work beside her beneath the cinema's fading lights, he must decide whether trusting her again is worth the risk.
As old resentment turns into dangerous chemistry, every late night brings Leila and Samir closer-and every reopened door revives a memory. But with the deadline closing in, Leila must choose between the future she planned and the home, dream, and man she never truly forgot.
Some places hold your memories. Some people still hold your heart.
Set against the salt wind, golden light, and blue doors of Morocco's Atlantic coast, The Last Summer at Cinema Dalia is an emotional, slow-burn contemporary romance filled with childhood-friends-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, second chances, dual POV, mature characters, and a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after.
Book One in the interconnected Cinema Dalia series. Leila and Samir's love story is complete in this novel.
Also in
Romance
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, Book 2)
Kimberly Lemming
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Auction (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Spicy, Dark Romance Novel from a Tiktok Sensation
Kincaid, Sadie
Hardcover