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What do you get when you cross a nervous bride, a chain-smoking, former pageant-queen aunt, and two cans of Aqua Net? A “perfect” New England wedding day in 1984. At least, that’s what everyone keeps telling Julie Winfield. She’s marrying Doug, her sweetheart since sixth grade, and he couldn’t be a more dreamy hunk. They have a romantic past and a bright future. He’s going to be a doctor and Julie is going to have 2.5 kids and enough money to get her hair set every week at the Cut ‘n Curl.

Camila Sharpe is in shambles. She’s broke, her boyfriend—make that “ex-boyfriend”— is an abusive jerk, and she’s technically homeless. Thank God for her best friend, Melrose, a gorgeous nightclub singer with a heart as big as her voice. Melrose is letting Camila crash on her couch and is helping her pick up the pieces of her dumpster-fire life. They watch TV, share long conversations, and do an inexplicable amount of cuddling. Why the hell does getting back on her feet feel so damn much like falling in love?

The summer of Saylor Lane is a stormy one for Katie, torrential in more ways than one. She's reeling from her pending divorce when a knock on the door breaks her self-imposed isolation. It's her student, Saylor, drenched and miserable from the rain. When Katie lets her in, it's just supposed to be long enough for drying off and a phone call home. What happens next will change the course of the summer—and Katie's life—forever.