Drifting Like the Waves

Seventeen-year-old Flo Kennedy's life is turned upside down when she's forced to leave behind the buzzing streets of London for a quiet, sun-bleached town on England's south coast. Walden-on-Sea isn't just small-it's practically frozen in time, where the most exciting event is the weekly bingo night, and the only people she sees are retirees in sunhats. No city lights, no friends, no escape.

But the suffocating quiet isn't the hardest part. Flo is silently battling the grief of losing her parents and the pain of being separated from her sister. This town? It feels like the final nail in the coffin of everything she once loved.

Then she walks into an ice cream shop... and meets him.

What starts as a simple summer job turns into something more-a new group of friends, a budding romance, and, for the first time in years, a flicker of real happiness. Flo begins to believe that maybe, just maybe, she can have a fresh start.

But life isn't a fairy tale, and Flo knows that better than anyone. When you finally climb to the top, the only way left to go... is down. And when the past she's tried so hard to outrun catches up with her, she'll have to face the truth: Can happiness ever be more than just a fleeting summer dream?