In the space of a single day Harry Taylor achieves the impressive feat of losing a girlfriend his London flat and his bookshop job. So when his cousin Lucas invites him to his home in the seaside village of Little Bluewater Bay to recuperate Harry jumps at the chance. Beth Smith works at a diner and is quickly overstaying her welcome sleeping on her friend's sofa. Overhearing a conversation about Little Bluewater Bay reminds her of better times and she decides to throw caution to the wind and try her luck for happier memories in the coastal village. Could a bookish business proposal and oldest new bookshop in Little Bluewater Bay lead to the new beginnings Beth and Harry so desperately need?