The summer I lost everything

Three years ago, Vada Lennox lost everything in one summer.

Her best friend Lux died, the people she trusted disappeared, and Vada never really recovered.

Now seventeen, angry, reckless, and one bad decision away from completely ruining her life, she's sent to Blackthorne Academy-a secluded boarding school in Vermont for teenagers their families would rather hide than help.

Vada expects rules, uniforms, and another place she'll eventually run from.

What she doesn't expect is for Blackthorne to start dragging up pieces of a past she's spent three years trying to bury.

And she definitely doesn't expect Rhodes Hawthorne.

He's moody, impossible to read, and somehow always there when she needs an escape. What starts as shared joints, skipped classes, and mutual irritation slowly turns into something much harder to ignore.

But the closer Vada gets to Rhodes, the closer she gets to questions she stopped asking a long time ago.

Because something about Lux's death never made sense.

And Blackthorne may be the first place where Vada can finally find out why.

The Summer I Lost Everything is a dark, emotional slow-burn romance about grief, secrets, first love, and the truth hiding inside the summer that changed everything.