The Summer Of Us

For as long as Evangeline Carter can remember, summer has belonged to Bluecliff Beach.

To the white-painted beach house tucked between salt grass and sea air. To long afternoons in the pool, late-night swims, sunburnt movie marathons, and the two boys she's spent every summer beside: Theo Laurent, all easy laughter and trouble, and Ashton Hart, quiet, unreadable, and the only crush she's never quite managed to outgrow.

Every year is the same.

Until it isn't.

When their parents leave for a month-long trip, Evangeline, Theo, and Ashton are left alone at Bluecliff for the first time ever, with four weeks of freedom stretched out in front of them like an open ocean.

But somewhere between garden fires, too many cocktails, old traditions, new secrets, and feelings that are getting harder to ignore, Evangeline begins to realise that some summers change everything.

And some people were never meant to stay just a summer crush.