Sloane Calloway hasn't set foot in Amber Cay in twelve years — not since the summer she left in disgrace, a scandal the town still whispers about at the yacht club bar. Her father's sudden death brings her home for what she intends to be a five-day funeral visit. Instead, his will names her sole heir to the Calloway Marina and Beach Club, a crumbling institution drowning in debt, and attaches one condition: she has to run it, personally, for one full summer season before she's legally allowed to sell it. Trapped in the town she fled, Sloane is forced back into orbit with the people she left behind — her furious older sister Isla, who stayed and resents every year of it; her first love Beckett Marsh, now the club's dockmaster and clearly still unfinished business; and a wealthy development group circling the property with an offer that would solve every financial problem and erase everything the marina has ever meant. What begins as an obligation becomes, against Sloane's every intention, a reckoning with the life she ran from and the one she might actually want.
