Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her life pleasing the people around her. When she goes to Garnet College in a beachside town in South Carolina, she wantsto focus on her growing internet business. Cooper Hartley is a local who tends bar and dislikes the rich, spoiled college kids who come in. At first Mac sees Cooper as a threat to her ordered existence, but as she starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt accepted.