This was basically a collection of novellas with a common thread of second chances at love and further bound by their setting, different beaches. The first was by Cathy Lamb, it was okay. I loved her book Julia's Chocolates, but this was just a typical Harlequin/Silhouette-type story and I felt the bad guy in the story gave up too soon, taking away the suspense. Same with the second story by Holly Chamberlin, suspense built-up and then sputtered. The best story in this book, I feel is the third by an author I have never heard of, Rosalind Noonan. It was set in North Carolina, a small town near Hatteras and Nags Head. Liked the characters and she went a little further with the suspense than the others. The final story was by Lisa Jackson. It was a reprint of one of her earlier stories. She now writes Romantic Suspense and is very good at it. This was just a romance novella and it was okay, a little too much angst. It was an okay read but a little dull.