During the summer after her high school graduation, Hailey Anderson, daughter of a crooked Washington senator, moves out of her father's house to begin her life outside of a broken home. Heart set on spending a carefree summer with her Mom, Hailey assumes her travel plans are foolproof, until a run in with Caleb Evans, a pretty boy with an ugly background proves how foolish she is. Caleb whisks Hailey out of Washington, and unexpectedly finds himself falling for her in the process, but as her hostage situation escalates from a faulty plan to a federal crime, Caleb discovers that it's hard to handle a hostage who's got a handle on him.

Hayley is expecting a normal summer in her small, coastal town of Haven, NC. Normal meaning: beach parties, fireworks, ice cream, family issues, hanging out; the works. That is, until her best friend, Taylor, announces that she's thinking of killing herself on her sixteenth birthday. Then, in the midst of it all, Ryder steps into the picture, a witty summergoer who's anything but the Haven norm. These two plot twists promise to shake up her world ... for better and for worse. In one impossible summer, Hayley might just learn a thing or two about life, love and everything in between. Formerly Fifty-One Days to Live ♥