BOOK ONE : the magical happiness that run's through cousins beach house was for the conklin's, fishers and browns. but this year, it was hard for Rose Brown to return to cousins. after her mum died everything was different. life at home was rough, that was torturing enough. She couldn't handle seeing the people her mother loved most. Seeing that place again could be too much. but deep down she wanted to see her second family, her bestfriends, her only true home. She needed to be in Cousins Beach House. She needed the pain to go away.