Ivy Marsh has spent fourteen summers being the easy one — the friend who never asks for anything, never risks anything, never says the thing she actually means. It's worked so far. It's kept everyone close. It's kept her safe.

Then Sam Reyes comes home.

Not the boy she grew up beside on Lake Marlow's quiet shoreline — a man now, a year older, careful in ways she doesn't recognize, and suddenly, impossibly, someone she can't stop noticing. One dock. One loose board they've shared since they were seven. And a whole summer standing between the friendship they've always had and the one thing neither of them has ever let themselves want.

Every summer before this one, there was always next year. Always time. But senior year is coming, their schools are three hours apart, and for the first time, the two of them are running out of tomorrows to almost say it.

If they don't risk everything now, they never will.
Friends to lovers | Small-town summer romance | New adult college romance | Slow burn to steamy | Guaranteed HEA

A tender, aching, unapologetically steamy new adult romance for readers who believe the bravest love is the one you almost didn't say out loud.

Tessa Wynn

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