# Read the first page of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune Read the opening of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune free, no signup. A PEI fling turns out to be her best friend's younger brother. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/this-summer-will-be-different-carley-fortune - Genre: Summer romance - Year: 2025 - ISBN: 9798885795852 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9780735247284&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9798885795852 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9798885795852 ## The opening I CUPPED MY HANDS OVER MY EYES SO I COULD gulp down the view. A sun-drenched bay. Water glittering like sapphires beneath rust-colored cliffs. Seaweed lying in knotty nests on a strip of sandy shoreline. A wood-sided restaurant. Stacks of lobster traps. A man in hip waders. Sea brine filled my nose and the putt-putt of a fishing boat filled my ears. A salt-kissed breeze sent the skirt of my dress flapping against my calves, and I smiled. It was everything I imagined my first Prince Edward Island vacation would be, minus one crucial detail. Bridget may have missed her flight, but I was here. And I was hungry. It took a moment for my eyes to adjust when I stepped inside Shack Malpeque. My attention went straight to the girl wearing fake red pigtails and a straw hat. She sat at a table by the window, and while her older brother watched the mussel farmers on the water, she plucked a thick French fry from his plate. She popped it into her mouth as she caught me staring, and I gave her a thumbs-up. "Your problems will seem smaller once we get to the island," Bridget had promised yesterday. I was slumped at the kitchen counter in our apartment, forehead on the granite. She rubbed my back. "Don't listen to your parents. You've got this, Bee." Bridget never used my given name. I was Lucy Ashby to most everyone in my life except my best friend. To Bridget, I was Bee. I stood beside the hostess stand and a hand-painted sign that read SHUCK IT UP, the tang of malt vinegar in the air making my mouth water. The mismatched wooden tables were full, and no one looked close to settling their bills. It was that kind of day. As I was about to leave, a server with salt-and-pepper hair and three plates of lobster rolls balancing on the length of her arm called over to me. "Take a seat at the bar, sweetie." I twisted my neck to find a row of empty stools behind me. And him. He was on the other side of the counter, head tipped down, shucking oysters. His white T-shirt strained against his arms and shoulders as he worked. His hair was a shade darker than mine—a deep chocolate brown, thick and wavy—short enough that it didn't fall into his eyes but long enough for disorderly conduct, tumbling over his forehead. The urge to dig my fingers in it was sharp. I watched his forearms flex as he sank a small wood-handled knife into an oyster, watched his wrist twist, prying it open. He wiped his blade on a folded tea towel and then slid it through the middle of the shell. The top was tossed aside. There was another flick of his knife, and then he set the oyster on a bed of crushed ice. As I walked closer, he cleaned his blade again. Instead of plunging it into the next oyster, he paused and glanced up at me. I almost stumbled. His eyes were the most dazzling shade of iceberg blue, striking against his deep tan. ## Books with a similar feel - [Final Offer by Lauren Asher](https://uncovered.ink/read/final-offer-lauren-asher.md) - [If Only You by Chloe Liese](https://uncovered.ink/read/if-only-you-chloe-liese.md) - [People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry](https://uncovered.ink/read/people-we-meet-on-vacation-emily-henry.md) - [99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne](https://uncovered.ink/read/99-percent-mine-sally-thorne.md) - [Searching for Beautiful by Jennifer Probst](https://uncovered.ink/read/searching-for-beautiful-jennifer-probst.md) - [Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert](https://uncovered.ink/read/highly-suspicious-and-unfairly-cute-talia-hibbert.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.