Sydney Rowe's life has taken a turn for the worst. A recent graduate with no dream job on the horizon, she has no choice but to move back to Walden-on-Sea, the sleepy seaside hometown she's spent the last three years avoiding. Her part-time job at the local arcade isn't terrible, but it's hard to return to the past after spending so long dreaming of bigger and better things. Unfortunately, Sydney's not the only graduate back in Walden, and she's soon forced to come face-to-face with a decision made three years ago. It's awkward enough to face an ex - let alone the long-term relationship you ended in pursuit of freedom right before university. And back in Walden's temperamental sunshine, Sydney's about to realise how easy it is to get burned.

"Not just a flavour, but a way of life." When seventeen-year-old Flo Kennedy is forced to up sticks and trade her life in London for a sleepy seaside town on the south coast, she's anything but excited. Walden-on-Sea could win awards for being Britain's dullest town, and with a population consisting almost entirely of over sixties, teenagers are an endangered species. Silently struggling with her parents' death and separation from her sister, Flo's convinced she's in for the worst summer of her life. But when she meets the guy in the ice cream shop, things start to change. It's not long before she lands herself a job, a new set of friends and maybe even the beginnings of first romance. For the first time in several years, she's happy. But Flo knows all too well that things can't stay perfect forever, and after all, being on top of the world only gives you further to fall.

Meet Noe, the girl who always smiles, the girl who always laughs, the girl who's full of adventure and passion and spirit, the girl with the seemingly perfect life. The little drop of sunshine that fell from the sky. But is she actually all sunshine and happiness, or is this all just an act? Now meet Ryder, that typical 'bad boy' name for the typical bad boy that seems to be in every romantic story where the good girl and the bad boy fall in love. He's like a thunder storm, cloudy and dark, moody and harsh. But this isn't your typical story, this isn't the story of two polar opposites meeting and falling in love and living happily ever after. This is the story of a broken girl and a broken boy, the story of complete opposites who meet and clash, and find out they aren't as different as they seem.