Gossip may be the ultimate currency in Rosemary Seaside, but Bethy and Tripp have managed to keep one big key to themselves.

Eight years ago, Tripp Newark was dating a wealthy girl he didn’t like and was on his method to Yale-and another he didn’t want. The only path he could get away his predictable lifestyle would be to give up the amount of money and power that came with his family’s name. And that’s exactly what he prepared to do. By the end of the summer, he would ride off on his Harley rather than look back. about You Had been Mine: A Rosemary Beach Novel

That was before he met Beth Lowry.

It was just supposed to be a summertime fling. She was a sixteen-year-old trailer-park woman who served beverages to his close friends at Kerrington Nation Golf club. They didn’t run in the same sociable circles. No one even knew these were friends, aside from lovers. Yet, for one summer, Bethy became his planet.

But he couldn’t give up his plan. He needed to leave Rosemary Seaside, but he vowed he’d come back for her.

Problem was, by the time he came back-years later than promised-it was too late. His cousin, Jace, got already claimed the woman he enjoyed…