A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author ofA Shoe Story.

As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending shed never imagined was her own.

To be fair, no one expects to die at thirty-seven. So when the unthinkable happens to Julia, rather than following the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, she chooses to spend one last summer near those she loves most.

As she follows her adoring, novelist husband Ben to theirunexpectedly fullhome on Fire Island, she discovers the ripple affect her life has had on the trajectory of so many:her baseball loving, young-at-heart neighbor who believes its best not to go it alone