‘One Perfect Summer’ The author of the book is Brenda Novak. It is a novel. The story is about Serenity Alston, who discovers two half-sisters she didn’t know existed after swabbing her cheek for 23andMe. In the story, three women meet at their family’s Lake Tahoe cabin and try to figure out the mystery that has rocked them. It falls under genres like Romance, Fiction, Family, Novel and Contemporary.