Summer Lovin'
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In an attempt to get over her ex, Lilia Mercer jumps at the opportunity to spend the summer in the Hamptons. However, when Lilia starts to fall for her summer fling and is forced to confront her past, she's left wondering if a beach refuge is really enough to move on after all.
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To the rest of the world, Lilia Mercer's life is on the right track: she's managed to escape the suffocating suburbia that is her hometown, she's graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University, and she's nailed a competitive internship that will have her overseas come fall. But reality is another story, for Lilia still hasn't managed to get over her ex from high school, she can't seem to meet her parent's expectations for how her life was supposed to turn out, and her future is nothing but a far-off blur as long as her heart remains stuck in the past. So when the opportunity arises to be an intern at a well-known international business company while staying at a house in the Hamptons with some of her closest friends, Lilia can't exactly refuse such an escape. However, blissful beach retreat quickly turns into anything but when she starts to fall for her summer fling and is forced to confront her past. By the end of the summer, will she be ready to return to life beyond the beach, or will she get swept up in summer lovin'?
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