After the loss of her fianc? a year ago, event planner Lauren Sutton can't seem to go on with her choice of career or the life she'd built with her fianc? any longer. Floundering emotionally, she makes a snap decision to sell her half of the business and spend the summer among the sand dunes and changing tides of the Outer Banks, taking care of an old inn in Rodanthe, North Carolina with its elderly owner Mary Everett. Perhaps the salty breezes of...