“Once upon a time,” she’d begin, locking a leg around mine or draping an arm over my stomach, because snuggling was part of the telling, “there was a little girl who lived by a big lake that seemed like it went on forever. That was when I knew I could lean back into my pillows, grabbing my stuffed giraffe, George, and settle in. “Not a fairy tale,” I’d say, because she always said no at first. Usually my dad cleaned up before he went to bed, but when he wasn’t around, the evidence remained there in the light of day when I came down for breakfast. Especially in the evenings, after that first or second glass of wine, which most often led to a bottle, once I was asleep. She was always tired: that I did remember. “Tell me a story,” I’d say when it was bedtime but I wasn’t at all sleepy. William the wedding planner from Once and For All is at Emma Saylor's dad's wedding ("One of the wedding planners, a dapper man named William.")Ĭolby ( Along for the Ride) is mentioned during the looming tropical storm.There weren’t a lot of memories, especially good ones. Where else did I read about that? Characters: However, due to some emergency, the plan gets canceled last minute and eventually she decided to be left at her maternal grandmother (Mimi's) house.
But when it’s time to go back home, which side of her will win out?Įmma Saylor's father is planning to go to a honeymoon with his new wife, meanwhile leaving his daughter at ne of her BFF's (Bridget's) Place.
It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well.įor Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family-her grandmother and cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.
Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was twelve.
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