From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn?COt seen since she was a little girl?Coand falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn?COt remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.Now it?COs just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable?C?until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother?COs family?Coher grandmother and cousins she hasn?COt seen since she was a little girl.When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. To her father, she is Emma. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.Then there?COs Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Roo holds the key to her family?COs history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. It?COs hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake?Coand Saylor finds herself falling under Roo?COs spell as well.For Saylor, it?COs like a whole new world is opening up to her. But when it?COs time to go back home, which side of her will win out?