Every summer, Bella Abbascia comes back to the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to unwind with her closest girlfriends. This year she arrives with a bigger plan: she has quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she rebuilds her life in the place she loves most. Then one of her good-natured pranks goes sideways and draws the attention of a serious, handsome police officer. Caden Grant has just left Boston with his fourteen-year-old son, Evan, after losing his partner in the line of duty, hoping the small resort town will give them a safer, quieter life. Meeting Bella on a night patrol shift stirs something he had stopped letting himself want. Both of them are guarding wary hearts, she against the risk of loving again, he against the danger of hoping for more than duty and single fatherhood. As the Cape Cod summer unfolds among a tight-knit circle of friends, the pull between the free-spirited prankster and the protective single dad grows harder to ignore, and neither of them planned on wanting the other this much.