It isn't. And by the time he admits that to himself, it's already too late to go back to who he was.
Micah Reyes doesn't chase anyone. He fixes boats, keeps to himself, and made a rule years ago after loving a man who was never brave enough to choose him in daylight: no more summer men, no more secrets, no more being someone's someday. He's not looking to break that rule for the tourist's son who shows up at the marina with a broken dock light and a life he clearly hasn't examined once.
But some men don't ask permission to change everything.
Across one unforgettable Lake Michigan summer, storm-soaked nights, stolen hours, a swim past the markers where neither of them can touch bottom, Sawyer and Micah collide into something neither man planned for and both are terrified to lose. One has to risk becoming his family's biggest disappointment. The other has to risk being someone's secret again. Both have to decide if this kind of love is worth everything it costs.
Some summers just happen to you. This one will undo you completely, and put you back together as someone braver.
Fall into Everything Changed That Summer today, and find out what it feels like when everything finally makes sense.