The Last Thing You Said

Sara Biren’s The Last Thing You Said is a young adult novel about first love—and first loss.

Lucy always loved summers on Halcyon Lake—sunning on the lake raft, relaxing on the boat, and spending every possible minute with her best friend, Trixie, and Trixie’s brother, Ben, Lucy’s lifelong crush. Until last summer, when one tragic event turned their idyllic world upside down. Now nothing is the same.

This summer, Trixie is gone, and Ben is distant, numbing his pain with parties and a str...