Five years ago, Emma Sullivan traded small-town sunsets for big city lights, leaving behind her grandmother's cherished bookstore-and her high school crush, Ben Harrison. Now she's back in Lighthouse Cove, determined to save the bookstore's legacy, even if success feels as elusive as the perfect summer romance. But Ben isn't the same quiet boy who once slipped notes into her favorite novels. Now, he's a passionate marine biologist fighting to protect their coastal paradise, with a confidence that makes her pulse race like the incoming tide. When their paths collide in a literal stack of falling books, Emma discovers that some feelings don't fade with time-they just get buried like seashells waiting to be found. As summer unfolds in their picturesque beach town, Emma and Ben find themselves co-writing a new chapter neither expected. Between organizing beach cleanups, rescuing sea turtles, and fighting off corporate bookstore chains, they're discovering that maybe-just maybe-the best love stories are worth waiting for. But when career opportunities threaten to pull them in opposite directions again, they'll have to decide: Is their second-chance romance destined to be a summer fling, or could it be the kind of love that lasts longer than a perfect sunset?
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