The Summer We Ruined

Twenty-two kids. One summer. Nothing left to lose.

They have the money, the cars, the yachts, the summer houses, and enough secrets to destroy each other.

For them, summer isn't about relaxing. It's about private islands, midnight yacht parties, illegal-looking street races, $500,000 cars flying down empty coastal roads, champagne-soaked nights, and waking up somewhere you don't remember going.

Céleste Vanderbilt has always been the girl everyone wanted to be.

Beautiful. Untouchable. Reckless.

Four months ago, she lost the one person who knew what was underneath the perfect façade: Damon Anderson, the boy she'd loved for years.

Their relationship ended when Céleste's addiction to alcohol finally became impossible to ignore. She promised she'd change. Damon stopped believing her.

Now they're forced into the same summer friend group, surrounded by people who know exactly what happened between them.

Céleste is determined to prove she's changed.

Not for herself.

For Damon.

But Damon doesn't want her back.

He's disappointed. He's angry. And worse than either of those things-he's moved on.

While Céleste secretly struggles to keep herself together, the rest of their friends are creating disasters of their own. New romances begin. Old hookups resurface. Rivalries turn vicious. Secrets get exposed. And every party seems to end with someone crying, someone disappearing, or someone making a decision they'll regret by morning.

Because when you grow up with everything money can buy, the only thing left to lose is each other.

And by the end of the summer, they'll learn that some things can't be bought back.

This is the summer they thought they'd remember forever.

They just didn't realize they'd remember it for all the wrong reasons.