Summer of Us

A Coastal Crew Novella

By: Janice Lam

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She told him it meant nothing. She's spent fifteen years wishing she could take it back.
Maya Sterling has one last perfect summer before everything changes. In two weeks, she'll leave for boarding school and the prestigious future everyone expects of her. She doesn't have time for complications.
She definitely doesn't have time to fall in love with her best friend.
But Jake Patterson has other plans. He has eight days to show Maya that what's between them is real—eight days of stolen kisses, midnight beach walks, and a connection so intense it terrifies them both.
When Jake tells Maya he loves her, she panics. Convinced that love will trap her in the small-town life she's desperate to escape, Maya makes a choice that will haunt her for fifteen years: she lies. She tells him it meant nothing. That it was just a summer thing.
The lie breaks both their hearts.
Now Maya is thirty, successful, and completely alone. When her old friend group reunites to dig up a time capsule they buried that fateful summer, Maya must face the truth she's been running from—and the man she never stopped loving.
Inside that time capsule is a letter. A promise. And maybe—just maybe—a second chance.
Some truths are worth the wait. Some loves deserve a second chance.
Summer of Us is the prequel novella to the Coastal Crew series—a poignant, emotional beach romance about first love, devastating choices, and the courage it takes to come home. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, and heartfelt second-chance romance.