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The Last Good Summer
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some summers don't end, they fracture.
Two years ago, on a warm night in Haven Point, Jamie Carver ran the jetty like it was a dare, jumped into the Atlantic, and never came back up. The town moved on. The ocean kept its secret. The three people left behind did what survivors do best: they built routines sturdy enough to hold the guilt.
Now Noah Pierce, Lila Hensley, and Wes Carver return to the same rented cottage on Dune Road for one week in late June, with one rule: no more avoiding what happened. The house still smells like salt and old wood. The porch boards still creak. The bay still looks calm from a distance. And the jetty is still there, waiting like a sentence nobody finished.
Noah hides in work and beer. Lila hides behind her camera and a life she built far from home. Wes hides in control, in silence, in the belief that if he names every risk, he can prevent the next tragedy. But grief doesn't care how careful you are. It only cares what you refuse to say.
As the week unfolds, old loyalties collide with old accusations, and the truth they've been circling becomes unavoidable: that night did not just take Jamie, it rewired the lives of everyone who loved him. And if they can't face what they did, what they didn't do, and what the ocean took from them, they will leave Haven Point the same way they arrived, broken in the same place, forever.
The Last Good Summer is a raw coastal drama about friendship, survivor guilt, and the kind of truth that only shows up when you finally stop running.
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