BURNOUT SUMMER
Four years after graduation, life isn’t going the way Camille Luna expected. Her corporate career is soul-sucking, she's in debt from student loans, and her breakup with her ex has created a serious rift between her college best friends. When her spiraling lands her in jail for the night, it's Danny Brennan —the lovable burnout from their college clique— who bails her out and offers the perfect solution to her quarter-life crisis: a summer by the beach.
Cam is whisked away to Elswick, Rhode Island, where former slacker Danny has taken over his uncle’s restaurant and turned it into a seaside hotspot. But while Danny has grown into a devoted boss and dog dad, his carpe diem life philosophy is still as fiery as ever. The hazy summer days start to blur between shifts at the restaurant, dips in the ocean, and a reignited passion for writing, all alongside Danny who makes her laugh like nobody else. Cam can't help but wonder —is it the salty waves that have her feeling so renewed, or is it the carefree friend she always overlooked? But summer can't last forever, and Cam's looming student debt reminds her at every turn that the frigid air of corporate office life is waiting.
As September approaches, Cam must decide between snuffing out the flames with Danny in order to keep her beloved friend group together and returning to the corporate grind—or falling into his forbidden arms and setting her old life ablaze.
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Drew Petrelis is known for his flirty personality, but his charm can't save him from layoffs at his fancy consulting job. With an empty summer ahead of him, he sets out to open a beachside brewery in Elswick, Rhode Island with his friend Danny. As they dive into strategy and wooing local investors, they realize they need support from the town's richest residents-which means somehow getting into Elswick's exclusive country club. Drew must turn to Della van Bergen, the daughter of the club's president and his college academic rival.
Fresh off a soul-crushing stint in Big Law, Della's back in her hometown to solve the mystery of her paternity and spend time with her little sister, not help her nemesis with his beer business. But when her overbearing mother tasks her with planning Elswick's bicentennial festival, Drew's dilemma becomes the answer to her jampacked summer: if he helps her with the celebration, she'll use her club status to connect him with his target investors.
The quid pro quo agreement powers their feud, along with a reluctant friendship built on shared quarter-life crises: chronic overachiever Drew is at a crossroads, while people pleaser Della is drowning under her family name. As they navigate their partnership beneath the summer sun, a red-hot tension grows. With their stays in Elswick temporary, they try hard to ignore their burgeoning attraction. But just like in college, there's always a tsunami risk with them together.