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The city is sweltering, disco spills from every open window, and the Yankees are chasing another World Series. For seventeen-year-old Juliette Darling, it’s the summer everything changes.

Juliette and her next-door neighbor David have been inseparable since childhood—outsiders bound by a world of their own, the kind where melting action figures on the grill counted as an experiment. But this is the last summer they’ll share: Juliette is leaving for college, and David, terminally ill, is running out of time.

When Juliette falls for Rico, the sexy pizza delivery guy, David realizes he’s waited too long. He’s loved her forever—and he has nothing left to lose. On the night he finally decides to tell her, Juliette is out having her first kiss. Alone in his room, David watches the Yankees on a flickering TV, gathering his courage.

Then the screen goes black. The lights die. And New York plunges into chaos.

The Great Blackout of 1977 has begun.
Twenty-five hours of darkness, looting, and fire—one night that will shatter a city and change two lives forever.

 A story about first love, last chances, and the moment the lights go out.