Whoa whoa whoa! Every Year After dished up quite the cliffhanger at the end of season 1. What the heck was that? Luckily, there’s another Carley Fortune book that can potentially spoil what comes next for Charlie (Michael Bradway) if, uh, anything.

Spoilers for the Every Year After finale. At the end of the first season, Charlie spots a photograph of him, his brother, and Percy in the “Banana Boat” that his boss’ wife bought at a gallery and, overcome with grief and memory, he goes into cardiac arrest. Heart disease is, obviously, important to the Florek family lore. The boys’ father died from a heart attack. Sam (Matt Cornett) became a cardiologist because of that tragedy. And Charlie’s health is a major storyline in the next book.

Tell me now: does Charlie survive in the books??

He better... because his role is about to get bigger. If the series gets renewed for a second season, we’ll see Charlie’s romance with a photographer named Alice Everly. She’s the one who took the photograph of him and his brother as kids that’s hanging in his boss’ office. Her presence looms large, even though she has not yet been cast. She only spent one summer on Barry’s Bay, but the photo was as important to her as it later is to Charlie. When she returns to the lake as an adult, they reconnect.

So, the photo and the heart attack are a cliffhanger and a tease wrapped into one. With that scene, Every Year After transitioned from an adaptation of Fortune’s Every Summer After to its sequel One Golden Summer. (He actually has a heart attack in that book. The series adaptation just moved it in the story to create some tension... unless he’s going to have another one! Ahhhhhhh!!)

“We talked a lot about ways to introduce Alice to our audience,” showrunner Amy B. Harris told Deadline, “Were we going to cast her and have her walk into a scene, or was somebody going to mention her?’ We finally realized we had the most perfect way to bring her in without having to bring her in, which is that photograph.”

Does Sam ever forgive him and Percy?

If and when Charlie survives, there’s still the other bombshell to deal with: Charlie and Percy slept together when things got difficult between her and Sam. And you thought you were imagining The Summer I Turned Pretty parallels! This is, somehow, much darker than the love triangle in that series.

“People have used the word adultery,” Fortune tells The Hollywood Reporter, “which I think is absolutely inappropriate when they’re 17. It’s a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of Sam, and it’s a betrayal of herself.”

One summer later, it looks like Sam is on his way towards forgiving Percy. He’s willing to try starting over, at least, and seeing where things go. But what about his brother? They’re estranged in the flash forward at the end of the season, so we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed that the series gets to continue this story in season 2.

“I think this season was about will they-won’t they, and next season will be about how will they,” Harris said to THR. She was talking about Sam and Percy’s relationship, but there’s no happy ending for them without the brothers reconciliation as well.

“I think that’s something that isn’t explored as much as I would like in TV shows. Although I hope the audience feels like they’re coming to a happy ending at the beginning of season one, to me, it’s just the beginning.”