That One Summer: A Tuckaway Bay Origin Story

Lia Langston thinks she’s heading to the beach for one last summer fling with her girlfriends before jumping into the working world of Corporate America. She has a plan. One week with her five girlfriends, then a summer job at the cute dress shop at the beach mall.

That last part doesn’t happen.

Before she knows it, she is swept off her feet by a local guy named Zach and whisked into a summer job managing the front office of his Aunt Grace’s beach motel.

Summer flies. She and Zach fall in love. And come August, Aunt Grace offers her a permanent, full-time position working at the resort. Zach is thrilled, of course, because he wants Lia in his life—permanently.

But this summer job was only meant to be temporary, her last hurrah. Corporate America is waiting back in Chicago and Lia must choose. Can she have her beach life and Zach, and an exciting corporate job, too?