Summer Stops for No One

My dad gave my room to my stepsister, and my childhood sweetheart secretly broke our pact to stay with her instead. Everyone assumed I was "strong enough" to handle the heartbreak and yield in silence. They were wrong.

On the day Ethan carried my crying sister away, I packed my life into a suitcase, signed a 3-year confidential project, and cut off every link to my past. When they finally realized I had vanished into thin air, sheer panic set in. But my real life was just beginning.