this was supposed to be my best summer yet the one ive been working toward since practically forever now im being banished from everything i know and love and it just doesnt make any sensehaving recently discarded her dorky imageand the best friend that went with itcolby cavendish is looking forward to a long hot season of parties beach bbqs and hopefully more hookups with levi bonham the hottest guy in school but her world comes crashing down when her parents send her away to spend the summer in greece with her crazy aunt tallystranded on a boring island with no malls no cell phone reception and an aunt who talks to her plants colby worries that her new friends have forgotten all about her but when she meets yannis a cute greek local everything changes she experiences something deeper and more intense than a summer fling and it forces her to see herself and the life she left behind in a whole new way in alyson nol s cruel summer