Raelynn Quinn and Hunter Calloway’s lives were inseparable from the start—shared summers, whispered secrets, and a childhood promise that neither fully understood. But when a bitter fight between their families tears them apart, Hunter disappears, leaving Raelynn with only memories and a tortoise-colored guitar pick she wears like a talisman. Years later, grief and inheritance reunite them at the Calloway beach house. Hunter is changed—taller, reserved, and engaged to Claire, a manipulative fia