Beautiful Oblivion

Reese Westfield grew up on the moneyed side of Lake Loveless — country clubs, cotillions, a father with plans for her, and a boyfriend she keeps only to keep the peace. Ace Waterman grew up across the water and has worked for everything he has, putting himself through college on grunt labour.

Home from her first year away, Reese proposes a summer with Ace on strictly defined terms: no strings, no expectations, nothing that has to survive September. Both of them agree, and both of them are lying — and as the summer runs on, Ace begins to suspect he is nothing more than her secret, while Reese finds direction in the letters her late mother left behind.

Beautiful Oblivion is the first of Addison Moore's Lake Loveless novels, later reissued as Escape to Lake Loveless.