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't seen since she was a little
girl-and falls in love all over the course of a magical summer.Emma Saylor doesn't remember a
lot about her mother who died when Emma was twelve. 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's just Emma and her dad and life is good if a little predictable...until Emma is
unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't 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 also divided into two people. To her father she is Emma. But to her
new family she is Saylor the name her mother always called her.Then there's Roo the boy who
was her very best friend when she was little. Roo holds the key to her family's history and
slowly he helps her put the pieces together about her past. It's hard not to get caught up in
the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo's spell as well.For Saylor
it's like a whole new world is opening up to her. But when it's time to go back home which
side of her-Emma or Saylor-will win out?
