"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--

Some summers are just destined to be pretty. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes,...

A young girl, still reeling from her dog's death, finds solace while picking up stones on the beach during her family's vacation.

Spending the whole summer at the beach, Daisy, who can communicate with animals, and her new friends--a dancing crab and two baby rabbits--join forces to help a dolphin in distress.

Toy Sooner, who has worked five years to become a strong single mother and a marine biologist at the South Carolina Aquarium, remembers her vow when Olivia Rutledge passed away; as Toy writes a report, her daughter points to a floating object in the sea, a sick sea turtle that needs help.

The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.