The Summer You Were There Series

CRUEL SUMMER

At Kaori’s gentle urging, Shizuku reaches out to Ruri, the girl she bullied back in elementary school. All Shizuku wants is to apologize, but it soon becomes clear that even that won’t be so easy. Things take a dramatic turn when Kaori faints, and Shizuku learns that Kaori’s been keeping a big secret. Now, with everything out in the open, will things between the two girls ever be the same again?

A TWIST IN THE TALE

After Kaori read her classmate Shizuku’s novel, Kaori suggested that the two of them date to give Shizuku inspiration for her next book. Shizuku decides to go along with it, but as they spend time together, she grows worried that she’ll hurt Kaori. When Shizuku opens up about her past as a school bully, Kaori has a revelation of her own: she already knew. Will this bring the girls closer together, or will it end their summer romance?

In this yuri love story by the creator of The Girl I Want is So Handsome! (also from Seven Seas), two high school girls–one a shy writer, the other a social butterfly–try to live out a romance novel.

Shizuku is a shy high schooler who hardly talks to other people. Instead, she loses herself in writing, crafting a novel that she never intends to show anyone. But when her cute, popular classmate Kaori gets her hands on Shizuku’s manuscript, everything changes. Kaori suggests that, in order to give Shizuku material for her next book, the two of them should start dating! Can this mismatched pair create their own happily ever after?