Carter has had a rough life. She doesn't have many friends, or a social life at all really. It's just her and her mom, living it up in North Carolina, since they had moved away from Los Angles, California.
This is because her dad, disappeared one day while surfing in Cali.
Often, she wonders what life would be like if her dad hadn't disappeared so many years ago.
The ocean has left a tragic, emotional scar, implanted in her brain. Sometimes she wishes that she could disappear as well.
Well, things are about to change when her mom sends her off to stay with her grandparents all the way in California.
For the whole summer.
She plans on staying inside, or maybe doing some shopping, avoiding the beach at all costs.
That doesn't last long when she meets him.
Noah Turner. A total jerk with no - so Carter thinks - heart. He has a passion for surfing, something that Carter used to enjoy, but now trembles at the thought.
His love for the waves, her hatred of the ocean will combine to be one heck of an adventurous summer.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.