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Cole’s the one she never saw coming.

Eric’s the one she never saw clearly.

But for Rayne Walker, love has always been kindling, and loss is the match.

Rayne Walker's childhood isn't exactly scrapbook material. Between a runaway mother and an alcoholic father, she’s spent most of it alone. When a tragic accident lands her father in jail and her in foster care, she finds Eric—the boy who becomes her best and only friend.

Since that infamous day, twenty-one-year-old Rayne has built a life she can live with—lifeguarding summers, surviving quiet Lavallette winters, and leaning on Eric and her other best friend, Sophia. Love has never been part of the plan, until her father is paroled from jail at the same time Cole, the new-to-town bartender, walks into her life.

With her father’s reappearance after six years, she’s forced to consider how far she’ll go to forgive him. Amid crazy lifeguarding shifts, unforgettable summer nights, and a love triangle she never saw coming, Rayne’s feelings for the men in her life entwine with her past in the most unpredictable fashion.

Second chances collide with first loves when Rayne realizes that opening her heart to one man might make it impossible to refuse another. The question is—can she let herself fall in love when love has always meant loss?

Perfect for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty who love complicated friendships, messy love triangles, and emotional second chances.