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After her father’s death, {y/n} spends the summer at his old beach house, hoping to escape the grief and get a fresh start. She expects long days by the ocean, quiet nights, and three months to herself. Instead, she finds herself surrounded by the Connor family, a close-knit family who seems to know far more about her father than she ever did. Then she meets Max and Thomas Connor. Max is confident, sarcastic, and impossible to figure out, while Thomas is kind, easygoing, and quickly becomes one of {y/n}‘s closest friends. Along with her new best friend Kiara, Max’s best friend Sofia, and Thomas’s best friend Ethan, {y/n} finds herself pulled into a summer filled with beach days, bonfires, late-night conversations, parties, laughter, and unforgettable memories. But the beach house holds secrets of its own. As {y/n} begins discovering old photographs and pieces of her father’s past, she realizes that his connection to the Connor family goes much deeper than she ever imagined. Between new friendships, family secrets, complicated feelings, and a summer that changes everything, {y/n} came to the beach expecting to find answers about her father—but she might end up discovering something much bigger: a place she can finally call home.