nvmidnight
At Cousins Beach, summers have always been the same-sunlit days, lifelong friendships, and the comfort of people who feel like home.
For Sienna, that "home" has always included Conrad Fisher.
They've grown up side by side, closer than friends but never quite anything else, bound together by an unspoken connection everyone else has always noticed-but they've always ignored. Until this summer, when something shifts.
Conrad grows distant. Then protective. Then impossible to read again. And Sienna starts to see him differently too-like the line between friendship and something deeper is starting to blur.
Between debutante events, old friendships breaking and mending, and nights that feel too charged to be accidental, Sienna and Conrad are forced to face what they've always avoided:
what if they were never just friends at all?
A slow-burn, emotionally intense friends-to-lovers romance about timing, jealousy, and the kind of love that feels inevitable... and terrifying all at once.