Ah, summertime. When the living is easy. Kids out of school, family vacations in full swing, honeymoons and girl trips galore.

Perhaps you are reading this as you dig your toes into white sand, or you’re currently curled up by the campfire after a long day of hiking and barbecues. Lucky. I could be achieving a summer glow and sipping poolside piña coladas right now, but noooooo. Instead, I am stuck inside writing this article for you, the BookTrib community, in hopes I’ll inspire you to pick up a new page-turner and stay inside like me, because if I’m not out enjoying this weather, neither can you. #sorrynotsorry.

Without further ado, here are six books that will make you rethink your summer vacation.

The Counselors by Jessica Goodman

Ah, summer camp. So nostalgic. All we need is a dead body. #summerruined

Camp Alpine Lake has always been a home away from home for Goldie Easton despite her modest roots in the nearby town of Roxwood. While the elite summer camp brings wealth and status to the area, most locals — including Goldie — are misfits among the privileged campers. Now returning as a counselor, Goldie looks forward to reuniting with her best friends, Ava and Imogen, and outrunning a dark secret she’s been hiding.

But Goldie isn’t the only one keeping secrets. When a dead teen is found in the lake, Goldie is suspicious of the cause — and she knows Ava was there that night.

Echoing "Friday the 13th," this novel will slash apart your glamping dreams.

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

Ready to have fun, fun, fun surfing the U.S.A.? How about run, run, run! Inside we stay. #summerruined

Service workers Remy and Alicia are not a particularly happy couple — but their shared obsession with beautiful ex-coworker turned glamorous globe-trotter Jen keeps them together. The duo fantasizes about Jen both inside and outside of the bedroom, until one day, they miraculously run into her. When Remy and Alicia are invited to Jen and her posse’s surfing trip to the Hamptons, things take a horrifying turn as violence and class resentment ensue at this beachside paradise.

For fans of Netflix’s "You" and Stephen King’s "Misery," Beth Morgan’s unhinged storytelling unearths the hidden drives that swim under the surfboards of our individually curated consciousnesses.

Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

In the mood for a cruise? Maybe not after reading this. #summerruined

After getting the heave-ho from her back-stabbing ex-boyfriend and best friend, Jade couldn’t be more ready to leave her life behind for a luxurious semester at sea. But when Jade discovers the people who broke her heart are also aboard the ship, obsession festers into a shocking murder. Bodies drop like flies as Jade and her new crush work together to clear her name and find the killer they’re trapped at sea with before it’s too late.

Diana Urban’s collection of shady characters creates a gripping mystery filled with jealousy, love and betrayal … and will make you hesitant to book that cruise.

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Psyched for your hiking trip? Might want to take a rain check. #summerruined

Best friends Emily and Kristen are having the time of their lives backpacking in Chile for their annual hiking trip. But the girl’s getaway turns sour after Emily returns to their hotel suite to discover a gruesome murder has taken place. Kristen explains that the charming backpacker she’d been flirting with attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. The scene is eerily similar to last year’s trip, when another backpacker was found dead — could Kristen have a blood-thirsty alter-ego?

After returning to her home state of Wisconsin and struggling to bury her trauma, Emily gets a surprise visit from Kristen, who tries to rekindle their friendship. Emily senses an ulterior motive and will soon be forced to make a seemingly impossible decision: Can she outrun the secrets she shares with Kristen, or will they destroy her relationship, her freedom — even her life?

For fans of shows like "Dead to Me" and Gillian Flynn’s "Gone Girl," "We Were Never Here" provides a feminine twist to the summer slasher genre. Girl’s trip: canceled.

The Resort by Sara Ochs

Nothing is more relaxing than a tropical resort, right? Wrong. Perhaps it’s time to cancel that timeshare. #summerruined

Thailand’s famous Koh Sang Resort is the ultimate summer destination, and Cass, desperate to outrun her dark past, is eager for a party-island escape. Years after first stepping foot on the beautiful island, Cass now works as a local dive instructor alongside the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the island as their own. Like Cass, every one of them has abandoned who they were before the island until secrets are brought to the surface after a dive student is found dead. This isn’t the first mysterious death to have occurred on the island, and someone is on Cass’s trail.

Fans of "The White Lotus" are sure to devour this book … ideally from their homes and not their hotel rooms!

JAWS by Peter Benchley

Thinking about going for a swim? Think again. #summerruined

Does this book really need an introduction?

The sunny seaside community of Amity Island becomes shadowed by a slew of gruesome underwater murders, and one small-town police chief, one marine biologist and one modern-day Ahab are determined to stop the culprit: a monstrous rogue Great White shark. Can this motley trio take down nature’s deadliest predator? Or will they too become victims?

I hope this article convinced you that the safest place to be this summer is inside your house with the air conditioner. Don’t worry, your overflowing TBR will keep you busy. Let’s just say: You’re gonna need a bigger bookshelf.