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You come back to the island after two years away, expecting things to feel familiar. They don’t. Your cousins, Nixie and Nash, act like they’re happy you’re back, but there’s something weird about the way they avoid certain conversations. Jace—your childhood best friend—still looks at you like you’re the same girl he grew up with, even though something between you feels different now. Then there’s Clyde. The boy your family doesn’t exactly trust. The boy who seems to remember a version of you that you don’t. Because you don’t remember much about the summer you left. You remember the beach. You remember being happy. You remember pieces of people. But everything after that is just… gone. And now that you’re back, everyone suddenly has an opinion about what you should and shouldn’t ask. So obviously, you’re going to ask anyway. Because if everyone is acting this weird about last summer, there has to be a reason. And maybe the boy who keeps telling you that you don’t remember is the only person who can finally tell you what happened. Or maybe he’s the person you should trust the least.