Endless Summer, Book 1

Endless Summer, Book 1 is the first book of the Endless Summer series. It is followed by Endless Summer, Book 2 and Endless Summer, Book 3.

This book will follow the adventures of a group of contest winners at the tropical island of La Huerta, that soon takes a darker turn.

Summary
''Adventure and romance await in the tropical paradise of La Huerta. Can you solve the island's mysteries?''

Chapters
NOTE: ''The gender, name and race of the player character is variable by the player. This summary treats their name as being Taylor, the default name.''

Act I, Chapter 1: This Must Be Heaven
"Adventure and romance await in the tropical paradise of La Huerta. Can you solve the island's mysteries?"

Your Character suffers a disturbing nightmare before awakening on a plane; he is alongside his fellow students on their way to their week-long vacation in the tropical island of La Huerta. You are alongside ten others; Aleister, Grace, your best friend Diego, Sean, Zahra, Craig, Michelle, Raj, Quinn, and a strange girl you've never met before. Your pilot is Jake and your tour guide is Lila.

The 13 of you land on the island. Depending on player choices, you can spend time with Jake to observe some strange lights at the unexpectedly abandoned control tower, or you can observe a very strange seahorse while playing in the water with Quinn. Your group eventually finds it ways to The Celestial, and while it is still with power and appears clean... it's completely deserted with everyone missing!

Act I, Chapter 2: We've All Got Secrets
"You and your new friends are completely isolated at a paradise resort. Is it time to panic... or party?"

You and your friends start exploring the resort, and during this time, you discover that the strange girl you didn't notice is named Estela. The search fails to find anything that explains the strange things going on.

The tension of the group's predicament and isolation begins to calm down, and they all hold a party at night, during which time the player may spend an intimate moment with either Sean or Estela. While on a walk alone on the nearby stretch of beach, you discover the shadow of a strange beast that night!

Act I, Chapter 3: All Kinds of Crazy
"Venturing into the jungle in search of the missing guests, you and your friends find both paradise and peril..."

Bewildered by the strange creature you saw, you awake the next morning - the creature didn't harm you but no one else in the group saw it. After investigating a little more, it comes to the groups attention that all of the guests on the island may have been sent to a nearby shelter.

Alongside Diego, Jake, Quinn, Lila and Aleister, you all start searching for the Shelter. When you get there, you re-encounter the strange creature from before - a prehistoric sabertooth tiger!

Act I, Chapter 4: Cut and Run
"Stalked by a ferocious beast, you must find a away back to the resort to warn your friends before it catches you!"

With the help of an ice-breathing Fox, who appears to understand English and is recruited by the group as a friendly pet, your group manages to safely barricade themselves in the shelter. You all start exploring the labyrinthine shelter to try to find a way out; during this time, you find a security room, where you may be able to "eavesdrop" on your friends and hear some secrets about them.

Eventually, your group is able to communicate with everyone back at the hotel, and advise them to rendezvous back at the airstrip so you all can leave this island. Unfortunately, since the entrance you came in through still has the tiger roaming it, you must exit through an alternate exit... that is completely devoid of light. Holding hands to ensure you stay together, you all venture in...

Act I, Chapter 5: It's What You're Meant For
"It's a race against time to escape the island, but destiny has other plans in store for you and your friends..."

Venturing through the mysterious cave, your group gets through the mysterious cave that has a strange vision-inducing orb in it. You meet with your friends at the airport, only to discover Jake's plane lit ablaze! And to compound the bad news, the tiger shows back up and attacks you all! Though with the help of your new Fox ally, you shoo the tiger off.

Considering the ice-breathing fox, the exploded plane, and the prehistoric sabertooth tiger, your now cannot help but ask... Where on Earth are you?!

Act II, Chapter 6: The World Has a Habit of Crushing You
"You and your friends come up with a plan for survival... but you'll have to survive each other first!"

Tension is high between your friends. Are you going to explore the resort with Sean's group to find clues or have fun with Jake's group to relax?

Act II, Chapter 7: Pies Make Peace
"Tensions in the group hit a breaking point... and only Raj knows how to fix it!"

You help Raj to organize a party, intending to stop the fights between your friends.

Act II, Chapter 8: You Always Have to Be the Hero
"Sean leads a dangerous journey to the island's volcano. Do you trust your new friends to keep you safe?"

You and your friends start the search for the island's Observatory, but a terrible creature is on your way

Act II, Chapter 9: Out of the Frying Pan... Into the Fire
"The mysterious Estela returns to save you from a frightening new enemy... but is she the one you should be frightened of?"

The dangerous journey to the island's volcano continues.

Act II, Chapter 10: No Escape
"The team gets into the mysterious Observatory... but will they be able to get out?"

You and your friends are trapped in the Observatory, inside the island's volcano. Will you be able to solve the riddle to get out? And will you finally escape from La Huerta?

Act III, Chapter 11: Rock the Boat
"Your limits are tested as your group reunites for a journey to the island marina, but none of you could be prepared for what you find..."

Act III, Chapter 12: The Enemy Is Out There
"A horrifying sea monster blocks your escape from the island... but it might not be the most dangerous threat."

Act III, Chapter 13: One of Us Isn’t Supposed to Be Here
"A mysterious, telepathic civilization watches from the rainforest, and they want only one thing... you."

Act III, Chapter 14: Last Night On Earth
"As the Watchers draw near, you and your friends hunker down for the night, with one last chance to tell each other how you feel."

Act III, Chapter 15: It Was Not Meant To End Like This
"The Watchers have come for you. Can your friends rally together to stop them?"

Act III, Chapter 16: Here's to Adventure
"The resort is under seige... and not all of you will escape in time."

Acts
Endless Summer is divided into several narrative acts of around 5 chapters long. It does not cost additional keys to progress through acts (progression happens as normal, using keys to unlock new chapters). At the end of each act, your progress is evaluated and you are treated to all or part of a bonus scene, depending on how many clues you have collected.

Clues
As you proceed through the chapters, you will collect "clues" that offer insight into the mysteries surrounding La Huerta. These clues don't actually lead you to many conclusions, but if you collect them all, you are treated to a bonus scene at the end of the act. If you collect most, but not all, of the clues in an act, you will still be treated to part of the bonus scene.

Some clues are obtained simply by progress, many are obtained through making the right choices, and a few cost diamonds, either directly or indirectly. The clue system makes this the first Choices story to include bonus scenes unlocked without directly paying a diamond cost.

Related to clues are the dossiers that can be found in Chapters 6, 10, and 11. Collecting them all (conventional premium choices with diamond costs) unlocks an epilogue and a final puzzle.

Friendship indicator
Unlike other Choices stories, where you are simply told your relationships with other characters are improved or damaged, significant characters in Endless Summer have a friendship emoji right next to their name whenever they speak. The color and face on the emoji indicates the nature of that character's relationship to Your Character. The emoji range from an angry blue face for enemies to a laughing reddish face for best friends. Whenever you make a choice other characters approve or disapprove of, a quick indicator will pop up informing you how by many points your relationship has changed.

Characters with friendship indicators are Your Character's classmates (Diego, Sean, Quinn, Grace, Aleister, Craig, Michelle, Raj, Zahra, and Estela) as well as Jake, Lila and IRIS.

The relationships that you can have with a character as of now are:
 * Hate
 * Dislike
 * Neutral
 * Like
 * Friends
 * Close
 * Best Friends

Soundtracks
Visit the soundtrack page for more soundtracks from Choices.

Trivia

 * The Fox is purple instead of blue on the cover.
 * The cover features three of Your Character's four love interests: Jake, Quinn, and Sean.
 * This is the second Choices story in which you can select your gender at character creation (after "Most Wanted, Book 1").
 * This is the first Choices story to feature implicitly bisexual love interests who are interested in Your Character regardless of gender. Previous stories have featured implicitly bisexual protagonists (i.e., The Freshman and The Crown and the Flame) with fixed gender.
 * In Chapter 6, if you choose to go investigate Rourke office with Sean, you will have a chance to enter the password to his computer. If you enter the correct one: ALccADDSccUP, your character will create a temporal paradox, and be thrown through time and space until a guardian of the fourth dimension appears and resets everything for you. The password is only usable in a bonus scene if you collect all the dossiers on you and your friends (in-universe, providing the clues you need to figure out the password). The dossiers can be found in Chapter 6 (after failing to gain access to the computer), Chapter 10, and Chapter 11.
 * This book appears to have a pattern when it comes to chapter names. They appear to be named after direct quotes from that chapter. For example, the title of Chapter 5 - It's What You're Meant For - is said by Estela towards Your Character when the latter tells the former that they either want to help the former in her mission, or that they will find out what she's doing, and she simply commands them to "go back to [their] cushy college life".
 * On Thursday December 7, 2017 Pixelberry released the soundtracks for the series.
 * The old note clue is expanded further when the gang end up at Neptune Cave in Endless Summer, Book 3 trying to find the other half of island's heart.
 * In Chapter 12, if you choose to use diamonds and speak to (who is later known as Varyyn) he somehow knows Jake and Sean's Hadean zodiac signs.
 * The Idols introduced in Endless Summer, Book 2 are revealed to be part of the Vaanti's religion.
 * On February 16, 2018 Pixelberry shared the playlists of the Endless Summer team that covers all three books on Spotify.
 * Inspiration for book 1 came from the song, Slam by Pendulum.
 * Link to the Spotify playlist is found in the Reference section.
 * According to Pixelberry's blog, the title of the series was supposed to be different.
 * There were also different brainstormed plots such as; a professor being eaten, Flora Sullivan being the Big Bad of Book 1, the rest of the Catalysts are your ex-lovers, and Aleister being depicted as a serial killer.
 * The events in the book take place over six days.