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Will it be a summer of fresh starts or second chances? For Lucy, the Jersey Shore isn't just the perfect summer escape, it's home. As a local girl, she knows not to get attached to the tourists. They breeze in during Memorial Day weekend, crowding her costal town and stealing moonlit kisses, only to pack up their beach umbrellas and empty promises on Labor Day. Still, she can't help but crush on charming Connor Malloy. His family spends every summer next door, and she longs for their friendship to turn into something deeper.Then Superstorm Sandy sweeps up the coast, bringing Lucy and Connor together for a few intense hours. Except nothing is the same in the wake of the storm, and Lucy is left to pick up the pieces of her broken heart and her broken home.



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Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

Jennifer Salvato Doktorski is the author of the young adult novels HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES (Simon Pulse 2013) , FAMOUS LAST WORDS (Henry Holt and Company 2013) -- a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year for 2014 -- and THE SUMMER AFTER YOU AND ME (Sourcebooks Fire, Spring 2015) , which is a YALSA nominee for the Teens' Top Ten books for 2016. She is also a freelance nonfiction writer and has published articles and essays in national magazines, such as Cosmopolitan. Her first paid writing gig was at The North Jersey Herald & News, where she wrote obituaries and began her lifelong love of news and coffee. She lives with her family, their dog Buffy (The Squeaky Toy Slayer) , and an African dwarf frog named Munchkin in New Jersey, where she spends her summers "down the shore" dreaming about surfing lessons and observing sea life while keeping her toes in the sand.

Visit her at www.jendoktorski.com or on Twitter @jdoktorski.



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