When Sophie returns to her hometown for the summer, she has exactly three goals: help her grandmother sell the family bookstore, avoid her high school ex, and absolutely, positively not fall in love.

Unfortunately, the bookstore's new landlord is Eric—the boy who broke her heart at seventeen and the man who now seems determined to make her smile at every turn.

Eric has spent the last ten years building a life in the city, but when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to the little coastal town he swore he'd left behind, he finds himself drawn to the one person he never quite managed to forget. Sophie may insist they've both changed, but Eric remembers the girl who used to stay up late reading behind the bookstore counter. And he's beginning to wonder if she's still in there somewhere.

Sometimes, the hardest thing about going home isn't being reminded why you left.

It's realizing you might have finally found a reason to stay.