Summer by the Pier

Owen didn’t plan on spending his summer in a sleepy pier town that smells like salt, fish, and regret. Shipped off to live with his cheerful but overbearing grandmother, he’s determined to survive two months of small-town boredom and terrible fish pies. That is, until he notices a quiet girl with black hair and wide eyes watching him from over the fence. She’s strange, shy, and doesn’t really know how to be a proper teenager so, of course, he has to help her figure it out.  And somehow, in a town he didn’t want to be in, suddenly everything feels different. Some summers are forgettable. Some leave a mark you’ll never shake.