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Seventeen-year-old Bella Coy thought summer was supposed to feel golden. Instead, it feels like standing in the doorway of everything changing at once.
Her boyfriend, Gary Hussion, just graduated from high school. In a few months, he'll leave for college three states away, while Bella stays behind for her senior year, stuck between Friday night football games, crowded hallways, and the version of herself she's starting to outgrow. They've already fallen for each other hard, the kind of love that arrives fast and quietly rewrites your entire life. By the first chapter, they're already together, tangled up in late-night drives, lake trips, and conversations that stretch until sunrise.
But summer has a strange way of speeding things up.
As Bella tries to hold on to the people and places she's always known, Gary begins to feel the pressure to become someone new. The closer August gets, the more every moment feels borrowed. One missed call becomes an argument. One party changes everything. And somewhere between fireworks, goodbye parties, and empty parking lots glowing under streetlights, Bella begins to wonder if love can survive when two people are standing on opposite edges of their lives.
"The Summer Between" is a tender, emotional coming-of-age romance about first love, growing up too fast, and the bittersweet space between holding on and learning how to let someone become who they're meant to be.