"You wanna be a police officer, killjoy?" "More like a lawyer, but who knows," I'm the one to smirk this time, "You have thirty minutes." His eyebrows lower and he looks down at me with a poker face, "You're bluffing." "You'll see." + + + The summer before her senior year at the University of Chicago, Cecilia Prentiss drops her plans to intern in Washington, D.C., and flees to the beach for one last chance to"chill out" before her life turns to complete chaos. As she plans for peaceful and quiet days ahead, there's something she didn't write down in her planner-or someone: Spencer Reynolds.