Singing Sands

Once a promising competitive swimmer, twenty-one-year-old Mason Burke never imagined his life would look like this.

After a family crisis pulled him back to his hometown, he's now a college dropout working as a lifeguard on the shores of Lake Michigan, scraping by on bills while raising his teenage sister.

Then Hunter Davis shows up.

A botany graduate student, Hunter's in town for the summer to research lakeshore plants. But it feels like his real mission is to get under Mason's skin, and it's...