The Forever Trap

I'm not an idiot.

Despite what my twin sister and my best friend seem to think.

Tate and Drew Brooks have spent the last six years pretending they outgrew each other.

They're fooling everyone.

Just not me.

The three of us grew up together. Tate is my twin. Drew is basically my brother. I watched them spend years orbiting each other, saying everything except the one thing that mattered. Then graduation happened. Something changed. Tate left Oak Cliff two weeks later, and neither of them has looked back since.

At least that's what they want everyone to believe.

Now Mrs. Eleanor Brooks has gone and done the one thing neither of them ever would.

She left them her lake house.

Together.

According to her will, they have one summer to decide whether to keep it or sell it. If they can't agree by Labor Day, the house gets sold.

Simple enough.

Except they're going to have to survive each other first.

Which means I'm stuck watching two of the most stubborn people I've ever met circle six years of heartbreak inside a house full of memories.

Mrs. E always did have impeccable timing.

Even from beyond the grave.