Signed Before Summer

A hidden yearbook note pulls two almost-strangers with unfinished history back together during the final days of high school, just as one life-changing goodbye threatens to arrive too soon.

In the final week of high school, Esme finds a handwritten note in her yearbook that no one should have been able to write.

The message leads straight back to Kian, the boy she used to know better than anyone and the one silence she has never fully forgiven. As graduation draws closer, another hidden clue pulls them into old memories, missed confessions, and the truth they both nearly lost by waiting too long.

But as the mystery of the notes unfolds, so does something harder to ignore. Esme is standing on the edge of a future that could take her farther from home than she ever planned. Kian is finally learning that caring quietly is not the same as showing up. And both of them have to decide whether love is something that belongs to the past they almost ruined, or the larger life they are brave enough to choose now.

Tender, nostalgic, and quietly unforgettable, Signed Before Summer: One Note Before Goodbye is a clean YA romance about yearbooks, hidden messages, graduation season, and the kind of first love that only counts when the truth is finally written down.