SOUTH LAKE DRIVE

Nothing at the lake ever changes.

And Whitney hopes it never will.

Every summer, Whitney returns to the old house on South Lake Drive and the life she spends all year missing: bicycles dropped in the grass, sticky fingers from Freeze Pops, dances at the YAC, fireflies after dark, and midnight swims with Jenny and Annie, her best friends since forever.

At Chautauqua, nine weeks can feel like an entire life, and Whitney is certain the summer of 2001 will be the best one yet.

But by the time she reaches the lake, a new girl has already been folded into the group. Katie knows their inside jokes, their songs, and the traditions that used to belong to the three of them.

Now everything is changing. The girls are growing up. First love and first heartbreak are finding their way into the rituals that once came before everything else, and the summer Whitney knows by heart no longer seems to follow the old rules.

For the first time, Chautauqua doesn’t feel frozen in time.

Whitney is beginning to wonder how much can change before the place she loves stops feeling like home.