For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha´s Vineyard at her family´s tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she´s tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there´s no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates her, the library´s interim director turns out to be the hot-reader guy whose book she accidentally destroyed on the ferry ride to the island.
Bennett Reynolds is on a quest to find his father, whose identity he´s never known. He´s taken the temporary job on the island to research the summer his mother spent there when she got pregnant with him. Ben tells himself he isn´t interested in a relationship right now. Yet as soon as Sam knocks his book into the ocean, he can´t stop thinking about her.
An irresistible attraction blossoms when Ben inspires Sam to create the cookbook she´s always dreamed about and she jumps all in on helping him find his father, and soon they realize their summer fling may heat up into a happily ever after.