by A. D. Miller
First published 2015
Neil Collins and Adam Tayler meet at a San Diego hostel in 1993. The young Britons bond instantly, traveling up the California coast in a friendship that feels as intense as any romance. They compete playfully, share secrets, and become inseparable. During a camping trip to Yosemite, they make choices that will shadow them for decades. Back in London, their lives diverge through the boom and bust years of the nineties and beyond. Neil and Adam navigate marriages, careers, children, and losses while their shared secret from California binds them together. Power shifts between them as guilt and remorse shape their relationship. When the full truth of what happened in Yosemite finally surfaces, it brings accusations and the desire for revenge. Their friendship faces its ultimate test as the past threatens to destroy everything they have built.
Genres: fiction, drama, contemporary, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, friendship, secrets
Setting: California, London, San Diego, Yosemite
Period: 1990s, 1993
288 pages · ebook · Little, Brown UK