Jace is living the high life. His parents are paying to get him into college anyway, so studying isn't an issue, he has girls lining up across the block just to speak to him, he's the biggest player money can buy - and he loves it.
But when Jace meets Isabelle, a more natural California beauty, with a sweet personality who seems resistant to his charm, he finds himself losing his touch.
In quite a predicament, he gets his parents to pay her personally to spend a Summer with him in his beach house. Of course, Isabelle isn't rich and her parents need the money an awful lot, so she reluctantly comes with Jace.
Jace has a Summer to get Isabelle to adore him like every other girl in his school, and Isabelle has a Summer to make sure that doesn't end up the case - but when a female and a male teenager live together, alone, right next to the beach, romance blooms and soon they find out they're falling for each other despite themselves...
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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