"If you kiss me, things will change," she says quietly and flicks her eyes up from my lips to my eyes. "What's wrong with a little change?" I whisper back. She shakes her head a little. "Everything." --- As Beverly Paige likes to see it, summer is your one shot at full freedom. No school. No work. All play. Swimming. Boating. Bonfires. Nights under the stars. Spending time with the best friends you could ever ask for. Beverly was looking forward to the best summer of her life. The summer she turned seventeen. Right before senior year. But she can't seem to figure out what's worse: her boyfriend of two and a half years dumping her at the beginning summer bash or her parents sending her off to love with her aunt and two cousins in a small town in Massachusetts and if she likes it, she spends her senior year there. After being dumped, Beverly swears she can never love again. Bev plans to wallow in sadness in her room at her aunt's the whole summer. No time for making new friends, finding a temporary summer job, or flirting with a new boy. But when her cousin, Becca drags her to a party one night to get her in the summer feeling again, she runs into a boy named Kingsley (Lee) Ryan. Lee is a stuck up, extremely good looking, arrogant, cocky jerk. He finds something in Beverly that draws him in and can't seem to find what. After a bet, Kingsley needs make Beverly fall in love with not only him but his small town, Hoban. The girl who hates the town and most of the people in it. Especially after being sent there against her will. Is it possible that Kingsley can make the girl who promises she'll never love again, fall in love with a boy and a town all in one summer?