The storm stirred by college friends Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe when they announce their plan to turn the first floor of Ashley's parents' rent-free beach house into a place to host soirees ripples through three generations of women. When this hurricane clears, none of them will ever be the same.

A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an unexpected attraction -- of their own. Year after year, Adam,...