Newport Beach, 2003—perfect on the surface, messy underneath. Seth Cohen’s younger sister is everything Newport loves: beautiful, stylish, and smarter than she lets on. Then Ryan Atwood moves into their pool house, bringing trouble, tension, and something she can’t quite ignore. Between Seth’s hopeless crush on Summer, Marissa’s constant chaos, and Luke Ward being the worst, everything unravels at beach parties where secrets don’t stay buried for long