Five Summers

Four best friends, five summers of camp memories.

Emma, Skylar, Jo, and Maddie have all come back to camp for a weekend of tipsy canoe trips to the island, midnight skinny dipping in the lake, and an epic game of capture the flag-boys versus girls. But the weekend isn't quite as sunwashed as they'd imagined as the memories come flooding back. . . .

I remember the next few seconds happening in slow motion. I turned to him, trying not to look as scared as I was. He started to lean - so slowly I wasn't even sure he was really leaning. Maybe I was just having lust-induced vertigo. His lips parted slightly, those warm brown eyes searching my face for permission, like that time I slipped climbing a tree in the north field when we were twelve and he had to take a two-inch splinter out of my shoulder. I knew what I was supposed to do; I was supposed to cock my head, close my eyes, and let go . . . .

Funny and achingly honest, Five Summers is a story of best friends, lasting love, and campfire s'mores.