First published 2019
Avery Greer lives year-round in Littleport, Maine, where she works to serve the wealthy summer visitors who own houses along the coast. For nearly ten years, she has formed an unlikely friendship with Sadie Loman, a summer girl from a rich family. Each year when Sadie returns, the two women become inseparable despite the social divide that typically keeps locals and visitors apart. When police discover Sadie's body and rule her death a suicide, Avery refuses to accept their conclusion. Detective Parker and others in the community point fingers at Avery, suggesting she knows more about Sadie's death than she admits. Avery realizes that someone is hiding the truth about what really happened to her friend. She must uncover the facts before the suspicion destroys her life and reputation in the small coastal town where she has always lived.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Littleport, Maine
Period: contemporary
345 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster
Content warnings: death, suicide