From #1 New York Instances bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel in regards to a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl-and falls in love, all around the span of a magical summer.

Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a whole lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she will remember the stories her mom informed her about the big lake that went on forever, with chilly, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.

Now it’s simply Emma about All of those other Story and her father, and existence is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly delivered to spend the summertime with her mother’s family that she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl.

When Emma finds North Lake, she realizes there are actually two completely different neighborhoods there. Her mom was raised in working course North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The additional time Emma spends there, the greater it starts to feel like she actually is also split into two different people. To her father, she is Emma. But to her brand-new family, she actually is Saylor, the name her mom always known as her.

After that there’s Roo, the son who was simply her absolute best friend when she was small. Roo holds the main element to her family’s history, and slowly, he assists her place the pieces jointly about her past. It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself dropping under Roo’s spell as well.

For Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. However when it is time to go back home, which aspect of her-Emma or Saylor-will earn out?