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SUMMER BETWEEN US
They came to Monterey Cove for the summer.
None of them expected to leave the same.
For the children of famous athletes, powerful families, musicians, actors, and rising stars, summer in Monterey Cove is supposed to be simple.
Beach parties.
Luxury houses.
Late-night drives.
Training camps.
Tournaments.
Celebrity events.
And enough cameras around to make sure nobody gets away with anything.
Marcus Hale has spent his entire life being watched. As one of the country's most promising young basketball players and the heir to a powerful family name, everyone expects him to be perfect.
Eli Brooks has a very different reputation. The soccer star is famous, charming, reckless, and constantly photographed with another girl. Everyone knows him as the player who never settles down.
Marcus doesn't trust people like Eli.
Eli thinks Marcus takes everything too seriously.
Neither expects the other to become important.
But between competitive games, complicated friendships, family expectations, summer nights, rumors, and secrets that aren't supposed to get out, the two begin discovering that there's more to each other than anyone sees online.
And when friendship starts becoming something neither of them knows how to explain, their carefully controlled worlds begin to shift.
Because growing up means figuring out who you are when everyone else has already decided for you.
And sometimes the person you were never supposed to fall for is the person who finally sees you clearly.
One summer. Eight lives. Too many secrets.
And a story that doesn't end when summer does.