Spoilers for One Golden Summer ahead.

This summer is already golden.And not just because Carley Fortune is diving back into the world of Barry’s Bay to, at long last, give Charlie Florek his happy ending in One Golden Summer (out now). But when it came time to distill Charlie and Alice Everly’s lakeside love story into the perfect title for her new novel, she was coming up short.

“We really had a hard time coming up with a name for this novel,” Fortune told E! News in an exclusive interview. “Of all the books, this was the hardest.”