Desperate to salvage her career, a novelist is forced to stop writing westerns and must write a contemporary romance novel despite never having been in love, but a summer at a friend’s summer rental changes everything.

Following a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven, North Carolina. Being with Nora and Emma at the place where their family broke apart is a struggle, and undercurrents of jealousy and resentment threaten to pull the sisters under. In the midst of the storm, sparks begin to fly...