One Golden Summer

Okay, you know that one perfect summer that feels like a snapshot stuck in your mind? The one that changed everything?

For Alice, that was the summer she was seventeen at the lake. She took this one photo—three teens grinning in a yellow speedboat—and that single image completely altered the course of her life.

Now, she’s a photographer, always more comfortable hiding behind the lens, you know? She’s amazing at seeing other people, but she’s been feeling stuck, itching for something more. But then her grandmother, Nan, needs her, and she heads back to that magical spot, Barry's Bay, for another summer.

And who does she run into almost immediately? Charlie Florek.

He's the boy from that old photo, except he’s all grown up now. He's a shameless flirt, a charming guy who makes her Nan laugh and makes Alice feel like that carefree seventeen-year-old again. The sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with him are a total balm for her soul.

But here's the thing. Alice is used to being the one who observes. When she looks up and finds Charlie's piercing green eyes looking right back at her—really, truly seeing her—her heart is in serious trouble. For someone who has built a life on being invisible, that’s the scariest and most thrilling thing in the world.

From the author of Every Summer After, this is just a radiant, perfect escape of a book. It's a story about finally letting someone see the real you.