They met as children, and during the six years of seeing each other on summer vacations, their friendship slowly blossomed into love. Then came the sudden turning point, and all it took was one faltering, one imprudence to destroy everything. And on one fateful weekend, even the attempt to fix it again failed.
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They say you don't step into the same river twice, and that's been doubly true for Persephone Fraser since she made the biggest mistake of her life more than a decade ago. She is no longer a teenage girl who spends a carefree summer in the middle of wild nature on the shore of a sparkling lake, but a serious and successful young woman. He lives in a stylish apartment, spends all his time mostly at work and enjoying the pleasures of city life. Although she is constantly surrounded by friends and has no shortage of partners, she doesn't let anyone get close to her body, let alone her heart.
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However, everything changes when one day someone calls her from an unknown number. Here, Persephone suddenly goes back twelve years in her mind, to an old familiar place in Barry's Bay. Things are set in motion, and before long she finds herself face to face again with her fateful man, Sam Florek, whom she once believed she could not live without.