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Seventeen-year-old Matilda "Tilly" Shcheglova arrives in her late father's beachside town, with a suitcase full of books and a heart full of questions. Her mother, Emily Crane, is trying too hard to be okay, and the house Ian left behind is full of salt-stained memories and unopened letters.
Tilly never expected to see Louis Edwards again-the golden boy next door turned high school heartthrob. But as summer stretches on, grief and nostalgia blur the edges of everything. Louis is kind, confusing, and maybe not the love story she imagined.
In a town where the tide never forgets, Tilly must navigate the awkward terrain of first crushes, fractured family, and the quiet rituals of remembering. A Lighter Shade of Blue is a lyrical coming-of-age novel about the ghosts we carry, the stories we inherit, and the courage it takes to rewrite them.