As the new employee at Watson's Flowers, seventeen-year-old Krista knows she has to concentrate on her job and not on the party she is missing at Bayside Beach on Lake Huron. But all she really wants is to have a summer romance with Jeff Wellington, a fellow student, golfer extraordinaire, and well-known jerk.

As Krista ignores Jeff's rather unsavory reputation and immerses herself in lively summer boating and beach adventures with him, she also gets to know her coworkers-Mario Watson, the owner's son and a handsome college student who tests Krista's feelings for Jeff, and Cheyenne, a...