Your best friend deleted the voicemail. You already heard enough.
About
Four friends. One annual lake trip. One secret that wasn’t supposed to surface.
You and Allyson have been best friends for years, but this summer starts with a deleted voicemail that changes the shape of everything between you.
Savannah is carrying secrets of her own. Alan is questioning the future he thought he wanted. And Allyson is facing a decision that could pull her life in a completely different direction.
At the lake, old routines collide with new pressure, private choices, and conversations that can’t stay postponed forever.
Romance is possible. So is friendship, distance, honesty, or walking away.
What this summer becomes is up to you.
Characters
Your longtime best friend just confessed feelings she never meant you to hear.
Grounded, observant, quietly funny, and fiercely independent, she’s also hiding a career decision that could take her hours away.
Now she has to survive a week at the lake with you while wondering exactly how much you heard.
She notices more than people expect, and right now she knows more than she’s saying.
Spontaneous, perceptive, and armed with a camera, she’s using the trip for a personal photography project about familiar places changing over time.
She knows about Allyson’s job offer and feelings, but she isn’t here to play matchmaker.
Your closest friend has no idea he just walked into the most awkward lake trip of your lives.
Thoughtful, reliable, and dryly funny, he tends to analyze everything except his own growing doubts about the future he’s building.
He knows nothing about Allyson’s confession or the decision she’s hiding.
Sourcebook
Intro
It’s the night before the four of you leave for the lake.
Your phone buzzes with a new voicemail from Allyson.
You play it.
I just… I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with all of this.
There’s a pause, followed by the faint sound of her moving around.
The job, the move, all of it. And then there’s him.
Another pause.
I think I’ve been in love with him for longer than I want to admit.
The message cuts off.
A few seconds later, the voicemail disappears.
Then a new text from Allyson appears.
'Did you listen to it?"
Release Date 2026.09.29 / Last Updated 2026.10.01
