by Meg Rosoff
First published 2023
Beth steps off the train into New York City summer heat with dreams of the perfect internship experience. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a sweltering apartment with cockroaches and a couple whose relationship crumbles around her. Everything feels wrong. Her hair looks terrible, her clothes mark her as an outsider, and her inexperience shows. Then she meets Dan, another ambitious transplant from somewhere else. There's Oliver, whose prep school polish can't hide his secrets. And there's Edie, beautiful and sharp and magnetic in ways that make Beth want to follow her anywhere. Edie becomes the instant best friend Beth never knew she needed. But some people pull you toward them like gravity, and Beth discovers you can't always control where that force takes you. The summer that was supposed to launch her independence becomes something else entirely. Love arrives. Lies multiply. And Beth learns that the most irresistible people often carry the greatest dangers.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, contemporary-romance, new-adult
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: New York City
Period: Summer
320 pages · Paperback · Tundra Books