The Summer We All Chose Each Other

A bittersweet, tender YA novel about first love, found family, grief, buried family secrets, friendship, and the summer that changes everythingBy Clare S. Redfern

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Maya packed the box herself. So she has no idea how the photograph got inside. Fifteen years in the same Cambridge apartment, three blocks from the T, four from the library where she taught herself to read while her mom worked double shifts. Then one waitressing shift later her mom asks how she feels about the coast, like they're planning a vacation instead of running from something. Now Maya lives in Port Blossom, population 4,204, in the smallest room of a rental cottage because it's the only one with a lock. No service on her phone. No friends. No way back to the life she left. Then she finds it, tucked between the pages of a book she packed alone. A photograph, soft at the edges from being folded and unfolded too many times. Two people she doesn't recognize. And a question she can't stop asking. Who put it there? The answer pulls her into a town she swore she'd hate, into a coffee-shop crowd that won't leave her alone, and toward a boy who looks at her like a stranger and a girl whose secrets cut deeper than her own. It pulls her toward the truth about the father whose ghost has shadowed her whole life. "To the ones who saw me, even when I was hiding." There are bonfire secrets and midnight confessions. A truth bottle passed around a circle of kids she's starting to trust. A rival who knows exactly where to push. And a father who comes back at the worst possible moment, when she's finally let her guard down. Over one bonfire-and-lantern summer, Maya has to decide whether to keep packing her silence into locked rooms, or finally let people in close enough to break her heart. Because the secret she's been carrying isn't just hers. And some families you're born into. Some you choose. The Summer We All Chose Each Other is a bittersweet, tender YA novel about first love, found family, grief, buried family secrets, friendship, and the summer that changes everything. Perfect for readers who love small-town summers, slow-burn first romance, complicated friendships, emotional family secrets, and stories about finding where you belong. A standalone YA with a heart-healing ending.

Coming of Age Found Family Family Identity Mystery Betrayal Healing