When he was fifteen, Tim Stark came to Beach Haven with his parents for a vacation. There he met a girl who would change his life. But not as much as the girl he met when he returned after his second year of college. Suzy Landers was the most amazingly beautiful girl he'd ever seen. Tim fell instantly in love. But unbeknownst to him, God, fate, or whatever you want to call it, had a plan for him-a plan that included a tremendous and shocking secret, a secret that would change both Tim's and Suzy's lives in ways they could never have imagined.