She's all mouth and bad decisions. He's been in love with her since they were seventeen and has never said one word about it.
On the last night of every August, the teenagers of Harrow Bay light a fire on the shingle, and everybody puts something in it, and nobody asks what it is.
In 2013 Juno Ferreira handed Emrys Rask a folded piece of paper and told him not to read it.
He put it in the fire. Because she told him to.
Sixteen years later she's marrying a good man from the mainland, and Emrys is going to sit in the sixth row on the end and make a speech nobody asked him for and go home at nine o'clock — because waiting is a thing you do at somebody, and he has decided he isn't going to be that man.
But there were three lines on that piece of paper, and the third one has cost two people nineteen years, and neither of them knows it yet.
Unrequited love, a marriage to somebody else, and a slow, ruinous burn across a decade. The last book in the Harrow Bay quartet — and the one where this town finally says the thing out loud.
Genre: Romance
On the last night of every August, the teenagers of Harrow Bay light a fire on the shingle, and everybody puts something in it, and nobody asks what it is.
In 2013 Juno Ferreira handed Emrys Rask a folded piece of paper and told him not to read it.
He put it in the fire. Because she told him to.
Sixteen years later she's marrying a good man from the mainland, and Emrys is going to sit in the sixth row on the end and make a speech nobody asked him for and go home at nine o'clock — because waiting is a thing you do at somebody, and he has decided he isn't going to be that man.
But there were three lines on that piece of paper, and the third one has cost two people nineteen years, and neither of them knows it yet.
Unrequited love, a marriage to somebody else, and a slow, ruinous burn across a decade. The last book in the Harrow Bay quartet — and the one where this town finally says the thing out loud.
Genre: Romance
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