One Golden Summer

A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different Named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by TODAY ΓêÖ E! News ΓêÖ Buzzfeed ΓêÖ Us Weekly ΓêÖ The New York Post ΓêÖ SheReads ΓêÖ and more! I never anticipated Charlie Florek. Good things happen at the lake. ThatΓÇÖs what AliceΓÇÖs grandmother says,and itΓÇÖs true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeenΓÇöitΓÇÖs where she took that photothe one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboatthe image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographersheΓÇÖs most comfortable on the sidelinesletting other people shine. Lately thoughsheΓÇÖs been itching for something moreand when Nan falls and breaks her hipAlice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical placeBarryΓÇÖs Bay. But as soon as they settle intheir peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boatand the man driving it. Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now heΓÇÖs all grown upΓÇöa shameless flirtwho manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen againwhen life was simplerwhen taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for AliceΓÇÖs soulbut when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on hershe begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees peopleΓÇöthatΓÇÖs why she is so good at what she doesΓÇöbut sheΓÇÖs never met someone who looks and sees her right back.