When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but an empty lot where her dad maybe once lived, her immediate instinct is to pack up her car and head right back to Connecticut.But she also finds...Deo. The half-brother she never knew she had. He and his hippy-dippy mom insist that Hattie stick around-at least for the summer. And with all of her friends spending the summer abroad, what else does she have to do?Her ideas about family are blown wide open as Deo and Marigold pull her in with their charm and love. But there's still a huge question mark where her dad is concerned, and that question mark definitely looms over her ideas about love and relationships.When Hattie meets Ryan, the college dropout turned competitive sailor, her perspective flips with her heart. Like it or not, Hattie is falling fast and hard for Ryan...even if it's the last thing that she expected--and the last thing her newly found brother wants for herSilver Strand Series books in order (though all books can be read as stand alone books in any order!)1. Lengths2. Depths3. Limits4. Ties5. Riptides (a Silver Strand novella)6. Drift

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