Hope Anderson has some important choices to make.
At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years.
With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.
Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father.
When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . .
But in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.
How long can a dream survive?