The Last Summer Before Everything
An achingly real YA coming-of-age love story about a hidden talent, first love, family duty, found hope, financial struggle, and learning to choose yourselfBy Dorothea Z. Bellamy
Length7h 4m
About this audiobook
Molly knows where everything is.
Every dough ball weighed to the gram.
Every tomato crate stacked with the labels facing out.
Her little brother Finn's meds, due in forty-seven minutes.
The foreclosure letters she hides before Nonna Rosa can find them.
One degree of separation. That's how you keep a kitchen running when everything else is falling apart.
Then Leo Roman walks into The Last Slice with a guitar pick in his back pocket and a grin that says he's never been late for anything that mattered.
He thinks recipes are suggestions.
He thinks the dough should breathe.
He thinks Molly is running this whole place, and somehow he sees the thing she's never told anyone she wants.
Because Molly has a secret folded under all that control.
A talent she buried the day she decided her family needed her more than she needed a future of her own.
The pizzeria is drowning.
Aunt Clara is unreliable. Finn is getting sicker. The auction notice is coming.
And the only plan Molly has left is the lie she's been telling everyone, including herself.
Then Leo says the thing nobody else will.
"You don't have to hold all of it. You're allowed to want something for you."
Lake Carmine has always been the whole world to Molly.
The mural on the back wall. The smell of oregano and lake-damp. The orthopedic shuffle of Nonna's sneakers across the tile.
Losing it would mean losing the only home she has left.
One summer to save it.
One summer to decide whether keeping everyone else afloat is worth letting her own dream sink.
This is the last summer before everything changes.
And Molly is about to learn that the bravest thing she can do is let go of the brakes.
The Last Summer Before Everything is an achingly real YA coming-of-age love story about a hidden talent, first love, family duty, found hope, financial struggle, and learning to choose yourself.
Perfect for readers who love summer romance, slow-burn first love, complicated families, small-town settings, and tender coming-of-age stories. A standalone YA novel with a heartfelt, hopeful ending.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult
Length7 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
4Chapter 3 - The Pebble that Started a War
5Chapter 4 - The Queen’s Crown is a Trap
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6Chapter 5 - The Song He Never Finished
7Chapter 6 - The Crack in the Foundation
8Chapter 7 - The View from the Dish Pit
9Chapter 8 - The University of Michigan Lie
10Chapter 9 - The Foreclosure Letters
11Chapter 10 - The Auction We Build on Lies
12Chapter 11 - The Night We Almost Drowned
13Chapter 12 - The Pebble in the Oven
14Chapter 13 - The Choice I Never Knew I Was Making
15Chapter 14 - The Fine Print of a Wish
16Chapter 15 - The Rival’s Confession
17Chapter 16 - The Contract Nobody Reads
18Chapter 17 - The Night Before the Auction
19Chapter 18 - The Fire in the Oven
20Chapter 19 - The Song that Won’t Be Sung
21Chapter 20 - The Road to Nowhere
22Chapter 21 - The Lie I Finally Let Go
23Chapter 22 - The Ambush on the Dinner Table
24Chapter 23 - The Signature that Saved Us
25Chapter 24 - The Grand Gesture Costs Everything
26Chapter 25 - The Auction of Second Chances
27Chapter 26 - The Summer We Didn’t Leave Behind
28About the Author
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