A radiant escape to the lake from #1\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0Every Summer After\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0This Summer Will Be Different<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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I never anticipated Charlie Florek.
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\nGood things happen at the lake. That\u2019s what Alice\u2019s grandmother says, and it\u2019s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen\u2014it\u2019s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.<\/p>\n
Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she\u2019s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she\u2019s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry\u2019s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.<\/p>\n
Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he\u2019s all grown up\u2014a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice\u2019s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.<\/p>\n
Because Alice sees people\u2014that\u2019s why she is so good at what she does\u2014but she\u2019s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.<\/p>\n