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Ava Miller has spent every summer of her life in Cousins Beach. She’s Belly Conklin’s best friend. Taylor’s partner in crime. An honorary Fisher. The girl who’s in every family photo without actually belonging to the family. At home, she’s an afterthought. At Cousins, she’s everyone’s favorite person to have around. She remembers birthdays, carries extra sunscreen, listens more than she talks, and somehow becomes exactly who everyone needs her to be. It’s enough. Until it isn’t. The summer Belly turns pretty is also the summer childhood slips away, old feelings become impossible to ignore, and Ava starts wondering what it would feel like to be someone’s first choice instead of everyone’s safe place.