Katie Vaughn is a videographer whose boss is in the process of a dramatic downsizing. Her co-worker Cole has given her a choice assignment: to go to Key West to make a video for the Coast Guard, featuring one of its higher profile rescue swimmers—a guy who had saved Jennifer Aniston's dog—and had gotten well known on the internet as a result. While Katie is happy with the chance to shine and perhaps escape getting fired, she doesn't know at first that the job was to feature Cole's brother Hutch. Cole blames Hutch for some problems in his life, and doesn't want the assignment for himself.
Katie shows up on Key West, and meets Cole and Hutch's Aunt Rue, who owns a group of vacation cottages. One requirement by the Coast Guard requires that she know how to swim, in case the helicopter transporting the rescue team (and her) goes down. Katie doesn't want to admit she doesn't know how to swim. Rue takes charge of getting her swimming lessons and asks Hutch to help, even though Hutch is the last person that Katie wants to know about her deficiency.
Some of the plot is a bit unexpected and unrealistic, but the characters are generally well portrayed, especially Rue and her friends, and Katie's outspoken cousin Beanie. My favorite character was Hutch's dog, a Great Dane named George Bailey. The book was fine, but it's not my favorite by Center, whose work I usually enjoy more.
