Summer, 1990. Sag Harbor, New York For a fiftteen-year-old boy, summer was supposed to be the same as always; riding bikes and playing baseball in the empty field, rides to the corner store, and the sound of video games we’d talk about all day. Days that startedwith nothing to do and somehow filled themselves anyway. No one said it out loud, but something was different that year. His sister was more distant, his stepfather was drinking more, his mother’s laughter didn’t fill the house the way it used to, and his baby brother caught in the middle. Friends who once seemed inseparable started showing cracks around the edges. There was no pact, no last ride, no big goodbye. Just one summer that stretched out like it always had...until suddenly, it didn’t. In The Summer We Rode Forever is a coming-of-age story about the moments you don’t realize are ending while you’re living them. A quiet, sun-warmed portrait of friendship, family, and the last summer before everything changed.