by Jenny Han
First published 2025
Belly has always measured time by her summers at the beach house. June through August means everything good and magical. Winter becomes nothing more than waiting for the next return to Susannah and the beach house, where Jeremiah and Conrad have shaped every summer since she was small. These two brothers have been her playmates, her crushes, her constant companions through years of ocean days and late nights. She has known them since that very first summer when everything began. But this particular summer arrives different. Changes sweep through their small world by the water. What seemed permanent shifts and breaks apart. Yet as everything transforms around them, Belly discovers that some endings lead exactly where they were always meant to go. The boys who defined her childhood summers will define this one too, but in ways none of them expected.
Genres: coming-of-age, young-adult, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate
Tropes: found-family, friends-to-lovers
Setting: Beach House, Susannah
Period: Summer
304 pages · Paperback · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers