Stubborn, sixteen-year-old California Hart is reluctantly spending the summer with her father for the first time in three years with his annoyingly perfect new wife and baby. Whiney little sister by her side, California arrives in Saltwood, Connecticut with an attitude and agenda. After reuniting with the friends she last saw when she was thirteen, they realize they're all changed, messed up, and damaged in different ways. All a little too tangled in secrets and tension. Alcohol, Scandals, and little harmless games of Truth or Dare make California's summer a little crazier than she thought. "It was completely, utterly and entirely an insane three months that drove me to the brink of extinction. Three months of adventure, love, and betrayal. Three months of the heartbreak unknown. Three months of me learning life's veers and tangles. Summertime. It started when the heat started."