<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">After years of living in Vermont, Lauren is at the Jersey shore for the summer after a devastating divorce, and her house rental appears to be anything but luxurious.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Lauren hasn't been back to Ocean City, NJ since her childhood, and now she has a good reason: to help out at Chipper's, her family's beloved breakfast restaurant.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">While she's learning to be on her own again, a handsome, mysterious man living next door piques her interest, but getting a chance to talk to him proves to be difficult.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Meanwhile, working at Chipper's is both stressful and comforting, and when a big decision must be made about the restaurant, she and her family have a lot to think about.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Through it all, she becomes reacquainted with the vibrant and nostalgic shore town and suddenly finds herself falling in love with everything about it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">In&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Book 1</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;of the&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Ocean City Tides Series</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, get transported to the sandy beaches of Ocean City, NJ, while Lauren learns the value of starting over again. </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>