About

The weekend stretches out quiet and open. Your wife and kids are gone, the house is yours alone, and the summer heat sits heavy over the neighborhood. Then the knock comes. Gwenn stands on your porch in a bikini top and cutoffs, sunscreen still fresh on her shoulders, smiling like she already knows the answer. She just wants to use the pool, she says. Her parents are out. But you've known Gwenn since she was a teenager with a crush she could never quite hide. The girl on your doorstep isn't that girl anymore. She's 21, she's back from college, and something in her eyes says she's done waiting. And somewhere down the street, her mother Katrina is paying closer attention than either of you realize.