In the main timeline of the book, Lara and Chase do date– but the summer before, Lara found summer love, Grease-style, at the beach with Jasmine. In Cool for the Summer, the main character Lara has been pining after football star Chase for years, and the book starts with him asking her on a date! Mission accomplished! Book over! Right? Well, no. Well, the short answer is you let them have their cake, and eat it too (not necessarily at the same time). Bisexuality is kind of a tricky thing to cover in a novel-sized story– yes, every book and their mother has a love triangle, but how do you resolve that without it making it feel like the character is ‘picking’ being straight or gay? This past fall (not long ago when I’m writing this, but a lifetime ago by May when the book releases), I saw the author of this book, Dahlia Adler, discussing the book on a panel, and I was immediately interested.
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