once we were blue.
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Last published Fri, Jul 28, 2023
For Emory summer always felt like a nightmare, especially since the summer four years ago that changed her life completely and not necessarily for the better.
Her feelings are in a complete chaos, when her mum reveals that they'll move back to the place that they once considered their home.
Back in her childhood town, Rhode, Emory is facing the difficulties of realizing that the span of one summer can change everyone she believed to know.
Between loosing and gaining friendships, she finds her way back to her childhood best friend Auden, who still seems to be the only one who really gets her. But not everything is as rosy as it seems, especially when she mets James, a boy whose touch could burn her, but that she seems completely drawn to.
But can one summer again really change her whole life? Or is Emory just destined to always get her heart broken in summer at Rhode Beach?
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