After the Fireflies

Sunny has graduated. In ten weeks she leaves for a dorm room, a dining hall, and a life she chose on purpose — and wants, actually wants. But first: one more summer at the lake house, and one last project. Along the cove path stand fourteen paper lanterns, dark for years, and Sunny and Skye form a proper committee — workdays, a bake sale, the whole town invited in — to restore them and light the path again in time for Festival Day and the Lantern Walk. Then a summer storm undoes weeks of careful work in a single night, and the cousins have to decide what the lanterns were really for. Told in both voices — Sunny, eighteen, learning to leave well; Skye, fifteen, learning to be the one who stays and keeps the light — this is a novel about finishing things, forgiving the weather, and discovering that a porch light left on is its own kind of promise. The second Sunny & Skye young adult novel: about growing up, glowing anyway, and always coming home. Because kindness matters — even, especially, at goodbye.