When Summer Meets Fall
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Every summer, Brielle Hayes escapes the gray skies of Washington with her family to Seabrook Cove, a quiet coastal town along the Oregon shore that has always felt like a second home. For Brielle, it's the perfect place to disappear into her books and avoid the complications of real life. Still heartbroken after a messy breakup right before summer vacation, she plans to spend the season exactly how she wants: hidden away with her novels instead of socializing or making memories. As far as she's concerned, summer is already ruined.
Books are easier than people. Fiction makes sense. Real life doesn't.
But everything changes when her mom unexpectedly reconnects with her old college best friend, forcing Brielle to spend the summer next door to Luca Knight - the son of her mom's best friend and the kind of guy Brielle instantly can't stand.
Confident, charming, and effortlessly magnetic, Luca is everything Brielle isn't. He's the type of guy who draws people in without even trying, and somehow always knows exactly how to get under her skin. Especially when he teases her for hiding inside her fantasy worlds instead of actually living in reality.
Brielle has no interest in guys like him. Guys like Luca are trouble - the kind who leave broken hearts behind without even realizing it.
But thanks to meddling Moms, forced hangouts, and Brielle's suspiciously determined younger sister, the two keep getting pushed together. What starts as constant bickering and reluctant tolerance slowly turns into late-night conversations, shared secrets, and a connection Brielle never saw coming.
And for the first time in a long time, someone makes reality feel almost as comforting as fiction.
But summer never lasts forever.
And when the season begins slipping away, Brielle realizes some people are a lot harder to leave behind than she ever expected.
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