After spending the perfect night with the seemingly perfect guy, 21-year-old Cassandra wakes up alone. He's nowhere to be found. And he’s taken all the contents of his bedroom with him. It’s almost as though he was never there at all.
Cassandra’s morning continues to get weirder when she finds a missing person poster with Gideon’s face on it. When her phone finally charges, and she sees the date – the 31st of June – she wonders whether she’s truly lost her mind. It’s not just Cassandra’s day that’s weird: the whole calendar has changed.
It’s as though she’s gone to sleep in one version of reality and woken up in another, where the love story she just began is already over...
Zoe Shakes grew up in Fife, in the east of Scotland, where she spent her childhood writing, daydreaming, and rarely putting down whatever book she was reading at the time. She first moved to Norwich in 2019, to study English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA. Since then, she’s settled with her husband and two cats on the Norfolk coast. Her short stories have been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review and Indie Bites and THE 31ST OF JUNE is her exciting debut novel.