Set against a vibrant Jersey Shore backdrop and bursting with summertime romance, hometown nostalgia, smart humor, female friendship, and millennial angst, journalist Francesca Cocchis dual-timeline teenage-crush-to-adult-lovers debut is the perfect beach read for fans of Annabel Monaghan, Carley Fortune, and Emily Henry.

If time is supposed to heal all wounds, Lina Marianos broken teenage heart never quite got the messagebut 15 sunny, sandy, angsty Jersey Shore summers later, she finds herself unexpectedly facing her old crush, getting a new perspectiveand maybe even a hopeful glimpse of the future . . .

Lina Mariano is stuckin her hometown, in her job, and in the past. And after six years of writing up local weddings as a columnist for a popular lifestyle website, shes wholeheartedly sick of nuptials. Worse, the next one on her list is none other than Sebastian Nikolaous.

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