The Summer We Found Us (Always Been You)

Could one summer at the lake house change everything?

Elijah Thorne

Tobias was my best friend. My everything. We swore nothing would break us.

Then high school started, and he shattered that promise—trading me for a perfect image and people who never really mattered.

After a traumatic event tore apart what little bond we had left, I did the only thing I could—I ran. Left our small town for school, desperate to erase Tobias and the feelings I never wanted to name.

But now I’m back for the summer. And he’s still here. Still tangled in everything I tried to leave behind. Still breathtaking. Still impossible to ignore.

Tobias Voss

Elijah doesn’t get it. Maybe he never will.

He doesn’t know the truths I’ve had to bury. The secrets I’ve had to keep. He doesn’t understand that I never wanted to hurt him. How he’s always been the most important person to me. That I’ve never stopped—

No. I can’t go there.

But summer came too fast, and the longer we’re stuck in this lake house, the harder it is to keep pretending.

Pretending that we were the problem when, in reality, it was everything else.

Maybe this summer is our last chance to get it right.

The Summer We Found Us is a mature, college/new adult, childhood best friends-to-enemies-to-lovers HFN MM romance with dark themes. This book contains mature themes that may be triggering to some readers, including abuse, mental health struggles, bullying, violence, substance abuse, loss, grief, and explicit scenes. If you have triggers—any at all—please proceed with caution.

This book is intended for readers 18+. It is Book 1 in a duet and has a guaranteed HEA, with the second book releasing this fall.