Same Time Next Summer

The ultimate read for summer nostalgia, it tells the story of an engaged woman who meets her first love—whom she hasn't seen in fourteen years—and questions everything she believed to be true about their love story and herself. She spent every summer with him from the age of five until seventeen, when he broke her heart.

Beach Rules: When strolling on the beach, do not go far.

Yes, provide an umbrella with each drink.

Never chance meeting your first love.

Sam is living a good life. She is set to visit a wedding site close to her family's Long Island beach property, she has a terrific career in Manhattan (until she gets fired), and she is engaged to Jack, a doctor who is the ideal fit for her (his rigorous routines are really a positive thing). Everything ought to go according to plan, but Sam feels a problem the moment she walks in. It's Wyatt here. Wyatt, her. However, there is no need for a thirty-year-old engaged lady to get anxious in the presence of the seventeen-year-old boy who shattered her heart. Correct?

However, upon returning to this beach and hearing Wyatt's guitar notes drift over the night air from the next home as if no time had gone, Sam's recollections of Wyatt's flesh against hers, their evenings spent in the treehouse, and the reason for their breakup suddenly resurface. Sam can still clearly see Wyatt in her life, and she can still recall who she was before he left. She will need to decide what to do.