Cruise

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Summer.
The season of sunshine, sailing and sorbets.
When the Mears family decide to go on a twelve day cruise, everyone is delighted - except for Casey.
Casey hates the ocean. And he hates boats.
But for some inexplicable reason he has decided to join his sister and parents on the luxury cruise ship - a trip that feels to him like an endless row of one excruciating, humiliating moment after the other.
Until he meets Sione, the dancer with the cheeky smile and the dreamy eyes. And Casey would have never dreamt it, but maybe it's possible to fall a teensy, tiny bit in love with someone over the course of twelve days.
Maybe cruises aren't even half bad. Or maybe it's just the summer magic. But Casey is about to experience the summer that changes his life.