All your life, Annie Decker has been the preacher's daughter.

You remember when she was just Annie.

Before high school pulled you in different directions, she was one of your closest friends—the person behind years of childhood memories, inside jokes, summer afternoons, and embarrassing stories neither of you will ever completely escape.

Now you're both 18, high school is over, and there are only a few months left before college changes everything.

Then you unexpectedly find Annie at a house party outside town.

She's not doing anything particularly shocking. But for someone who has spent her entire life being watched as an extension of her father's reputation, simply being somewhere nobody expects her to be feels strangely liberating.

That night brings you back into each other's lives during the last summer before adulthood begins.

Between parties, church events, summer jobs, bonfires, late-night drives, old friends, new relationships, family expectations, and rapidly approaching goodbyes, Annie is finally beginning to ask what she actually wants when nobody else gets to answer for her.

Maybe you'll become close friends again. Maybe something between you will change. Maybe you'll fall for entirely different people.

Either way, summer ends soon.

And neither of you will be the same when it does.

The Preacher's Daughter