It's that weird limbo summer when school's over for ever and everything you've ever known is ending but nothing new has started yet. LILY's split up with the boyfriend she was planning to spend the summer with. SIMON's plans to travel are scuppered when his mother has a freak accident. So they agree to be each other's substitute best friend. And when Simon gets Lily a job in his mum's tearoom, Gingerbread & Cupcake, they soon have other things to worry about as business takes a dive. Can they save the tearoom? Possibly. And might they be falling in love? Of course not. Because you can't start anything new, not this last summer.