Morning Glory native Jess Culpepper is certainly desperate to get out of city after divorcing the only guy she’s ever dated. She takes a short-term nursing work in Florida and, thanks to the bequest of her late friend, Lacy, has the funds to rent a condo right on the seaside. She’s not prepared to literally trip over her aged high school laboratory partner-and not at all prepared for how deliciously sizzling he is now.

Ryan Reyes, once known as “the Brain,” spent some time working hard to be a lot more than the skinny nerd that jocks bullied and girls politely tolerated. At twenty-six, he provides retired from technology to perform a charter angling business in Pensacola and spend his leisure time catching through to the debauchery he skipped. But when the unattainable female of his teenage fantasies goes in down the beach, old feelings arrive flooding back.

Their scorching attraction soon leads them into bed-but what starts as no-strings-attached fun is difficult by a return to Morning Glory and the shadows of their shared previous. Can the top cheerleader as well as the geek redefine themselves and forge forward to find their happily ever after?