Summertime Blues by Marie Savage

Tyler McCandless needs a break—a break from college, a break from his dad, and most of all, a break from women. Picking up the pieces of his broken heart, he accepts an invitation to spend the summer at his buddy’s condo in Panama City Beach. He’s young, attractive, and now unwittingly single … He should be having the time of his life. Unfortunately, he is finding he can no longer enjoy just hooking up and is ready to head back to Alabama. That is, until beauty queen, Jackie Winston shows up.

Tyler and Jackie have a history dating back to elementary school. She went from being a lost little girl, to annoying pest, to his best friend’s girl, to finally becoming a good friend. Her smile is contagious and when he’s with her, things seem better somehow. As their friendship starts to become something more, he realizes there is a lot of pain behind her blue-green eyes. Will secrets from his past destroy their relationship? Can Tyler be there for her, when Jackie needs him the most?