The Luckiest Boy

After embracing the rush of life beyond college graduation, gently avoiding the summers that whispered of what could've been.

Iris Madden returns to Oak Island, where the salt air still carries echoes of warmth, belonging, and the boy who once unraveled her heart-Ethan Cohen.

She tells herself it's just one last summer before she leaves for Spain, a brief pause to pack up the past by healing and prepare for what's next.

But Oak Island has a way of pulling you under. It always has for Iris.

When Iris runs into Paxton Cohen-her best friend's little brother, now grown and impossibly familiar-she's caught off guard by the quiet confidence in his smile and the way he's changed into a young man and not the same 13 year old kid she left behind 6 years ago. As old haunts stir up buried grief and long-lost memories, Iris finds herself tangled in the bittersweet tension of what was and what could be.

With the tide rising and time slipping, Iris must decide: is this summer just a farewell to the Cohens and Oak Island, or the beginning of something she never saw coming?

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"That house, those boys, the rhythm of our shared seasons...
they were the one constant I could count on.

The one place where life felt simple, safe, and real.
Oak Island wasn't just a destination.

It was tradition.
It was ours."