This story surrounds two sisters, Alice and Riley, who always spend the summer in a Fire Island summer home. They've grown up in this summer home next door to their best friend, Paul. Riley and Paul are the same age and have always been best buds. Riley was always the headstrong, athletic sister that's "one of the boys." Meanwhile, Alice has always been the younger, smart, pretty sister...who has also always had a crush on Paul. Little does she know, that Paul has always felt the same way about her. This summer...is the summer their attraction comes to a head. Alice gives her virginity to Paul and the two begin a torrid love affair...but they don't tell anyone, not even Riley.
One night changes all of this...Alice has snuck over to Paul's and an emergency alarm goes off with a helicopter coming to whisk them off to the mainland hospital. Alice dismisses this as an old retired person probably having a heart attack or some such medical emergency.
In the morning, Alice discovers it was not an old person...it was Riley. Riley has a rheumatic heart problem and needs a new heart. What's worse...is when you find out why. So, how does a headstrong, athletic and seemingly healthy girl handle this? By not telling anyone, of course. Most especially not a childhood best friend. Riley feels more comfortable with people who don't know because she doesn't feel pitied or mothered-henned...
Meanwhile...Paul feels that Alice has dumped him for no apparent reason. She just up and left the island without even so much as a good-bye. Will Paul eventually find out the truth?
And will Riley get her new heart?
Read it and find out!
I am so glad you loved it as much as I did. I would love to see it made into a movie.
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