Bianca Miller

A heartfelt journey of loss, self-discovery, and one epic love story that will have you ready to dive in. Fly in, tie up loose ends, and fly out. Three days. Seventy-two hours. And not a second longer. At least that was the plan. Georgia Windsor has a good job in New York, a charming best friend, and a perfectly adequate man, but she also has an undeniable urge to control it all. She’s planned every last detail of her entire life, allowing for no surprises to throw her off balance, and she’s not about to shift her trajectory now. But life has a funny way of changing our plans. After receiving news of her estranged father’s death, Georgia is not only forced to confront the painful feelings she’s tucked away for so long, but she’s also forced return to the one place she swore she’d never go back to: Sullivan’s Island. With one tiny carry-on and absolutely no time to spare, Georgia lands in her once-beloved sleepy beach town only to find it’s not exactly as she remembered, especially once she sees Callahan Thomas. The tall, backwards-hat-wearing, blue-eyed surfer boy has a few surprises up his sleeve, namely pushing Georgia beyond her comfort zone and making her relinquish all control. While Georgia is steadfast in sticking to her goal of dealing with her father’s affairs and getting off the island as quickly as possible, she can’t ignore the nagging feeling that maybe her life plan isn’t actually what she wants after all. But when she finds a letter from her dead father, few things seem as important as seeing it through to the end.

Miller Morgan—or MJ, to basically everyone—once dreamed of a future in New York City with her best friend, Olivia Mitchell, by her side. They had plans. Big plans. Until tragedy struck. At seventeen, the world MJ knew shattered into a million pieces, scattered across the quiet sands of her sleepy beach hometown. Now, at twenty-eight, MJ's life is a far cry from what she imagined. She’s stuck in a never-ending loop, each day blending into the next. By day, she bartends at her parents' seaside restaurant; by night, she chases elusive words for a book that feels like it’ll never exist. The past—and the grief—still lingers, keeping her trapped in a life that doesn’t seem to move forward. Enter Grey Prescott. Charming, wealthy, and undeniably attractive—Grey is everything MJ usually avoids. A summer transplant, the type who lives for the thrill of a whirlwind romance and vanishes before fall, leaving nothing but disappointment in his wake. And despite his persistence, she’s not falling for it. Or so she thought. As the summer unfolds, MJ finds herself irresistibly drawn to Grey, discovering a connection and a passion that deepens by the day. But even as he inspires her to look towards the future once again, she can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to Grey than meets the eye. Can one summer really change everything? Or is the past just too hard to leave behind?