Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the pastnow she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Coles request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West.

The catch? Katies not exactly qualified. She cant swimbut fakes it that she can.

But paradise is messier than it seems. As Katie gets entangled with Hutch, along with his colorful Aunt Rue and his rescue Great Dane, she gets trapped in a lie.

Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensuealong with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last.