What is the title of your latest release?
SUMMER’S NEVER OVER
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
When a woman returns to the summer camp where she grew up - five years after it burned to the ground and her close friend died - she gets entangled in an investigation into the truth about that summer, the fire, and is forced to confront long-buried secrets about the people she loves.
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
It was actually the first thing about this book that I knew for sure! I really wanted to write a novel that took place at a summer camp.
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
Yes! 100%.
What are three words that describe your hero?
Broody, gutsy, compassionate.
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
I learned that I’m actually good at taking editorial feedback. Which was a surprise!! I’ve always considered myself a pretty sensitive person, and once I got an agent and editor, part of me was nervous that I would struggle big-time with reading and implementing their feedback. But that wasn’t the case! We make such a good team and have a strong shared vision that I really enjoy the process of making changes and leveling up my writing.
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I wish I could say I waited, but I have zero self-control to stop myself from constantly tinkering. It’s something I’m working on!
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
I can eat my weight in nerds clusters.
Describe your writing space/office!
I have a standing desk in my home office, but honestly, I can write anywhere. I often will write on the couch or standing at the kitchen counter.
Who is an author you admire?
Riley Sager is one of my very favorite authors. I love how he does such interesting, unexpected things in every book. His range is so impressive.
Is there a book that changed your life?
I remember reading THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware and being so OBSESSED with it that I decided I was going to try writing my own thriller. And here we are!!
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I was at work (I do sales/marketing at a website company) when my agent called me with the official offer. I took a few laps around the parking lot and cried happy tears, then immediately left work because I knew I was going to be useless the rest of the day. It was one of the coolest, most surreal moments ever.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Thriller and romance
What’s your favorite movie?
Legally Blonde
What is your favorite season?
I’m a summer girl, but I also love the fall.
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
My friends all come over, and we have fun cocktails and watch Twilight. I get to say all the lines out loud, and no one can get mad.
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
My favorite podcast is called Ride, with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone. They’re hilarious.
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Mexican
What do you do when you have free time?
Read, go on long walks, and spend time with my husband
What can readers expect from you next?
Another twisty mystery coming summer 2027!
In this addictive dual-timeline debut novel, a woman confronts her past at the remote Southern summer camp where the tragic death of her fellow counselor may not have been an accident after all.
Five years ago, Greer left her family’s summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she’d never return. An idyllic season had turned into a nightmare after a mysterious Phantom began stalking the camp—and ended with Greer’s friend and fellow counselor dead. Losing Steph shattered everything, and Greer’s been fleeing from the grief ever since.
But then Greer’s mother dies, and Greer finds herself back at Dread’s Cove, surrounded by the people she was closest to that intense summer. Two ex-boyfriends—one a childhood sweetheart, the other the guy she's never gotten over—and old friends. Including Margo, Steph's best friend.
Greer and Margo didn’t leave things on the best of terms. But now, Margo needs her. Margo never believed that Steph’s death in that horrific fire was an accident—and she’s on the trail of an explosive secret Steph took to her grave.
Greer has to make a choice: keep the Cove’s secrets and her own, or finally face the truth about that summer.
Women's Fiction Friendship | Romance Suspense [ Berkley, On Sale: June 9, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9780593953532 / eISBN: 9780593953549 ]
An Impressive Debut set at a Summer Camp, Where Secrets Lie Deep, and a Killer Stalks the Woods
Darby Bozeman grew up in Portland, Oregon, but she’s spent the better part of her adult life in the South. She has a Master’s in Teaching from the University of Georgia and she taught middle school English for five years. When she’s not reading or writing, she loves acting in community theatre and discussing pop culture. She lives in Knoxville with her husband, Bryan, and their cat, Claude.
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