A #1 New York Times bestseller! From acclaimed and #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a sweet, nuanced, and reflective coming-of-age love story (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an unassuming girl who learns to stand on her own while falling in love during a life-changing summer.Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone elses shadow. Fortunately, shes got Colin, her magnetic boyfriend, who sweeps her along for activities, friendships, and future plans. Then she goes on a last-minute trip with her distant mom to a family vacation house that Finley didnt know existed and is now about to be sold. Her mom was estranged from her own parents and siblings since leaving home for college, and its a novelty for Finley to see her aunts and cousins. Theres also the handful of teens who work at the Egg, her aunts diner, and make up a found family of their ownincluding undeniably handsome guitarist Ben. Then her relationship with Colin goes into freefall, and Finleys road map for life after high school is gone. She has no choice but to live, for the first time, without plans. The longer Finley stays, the closer she gets to the truth about why her mother stayed awayand why shes brought Finley here now. And the closer she grows to new friends at the Egg, the more she starts to fall for charmingly awkward, soulful Ben and to realize how much of herself shes been missing. By the end of the summer, nothing will be the samefor this community or for Finley herself.
