The Glass Summer
By @john1208
Inessa Vargo is severely depressed. How depressed? Instead of crying at her overworked colleague’s funeral, she delivers a shamelessly inappropriate eulogy, walks straight to the airport in her black mourning dress, and boards the first flight to the sleepy, sun-drenched island of Pellaris. She wants nothing more than to rot in a hammock away from the corporate grind. She finds refuge at a crumbling seaside inn run by Merrick Tahl, a quiet, brooding man harboring a dangerous past. Told in alternating perspectives, their relationship is a slow-burn dance of Inessa’s cheeky provocations and Merrick’s guarded walls. Pellaris offers the perfect, eerily atmospheric escape - the streets are bizarrely quiet, the sun never seems to move, and the shadows stretch a bit too long. But there is a reason the island is so empty. No one mentioned the impending 'Glass Summer' - a dangerous atmospheric lockdown that isolates the island for months. With the last ferry departing in three days, Inessa is forced back to her miserable reality in the rain-soaked city of Morvalis. But what happens when the reclusive innkeeper abandons his entire hidden life to follow her into the concrete jungle?
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