The Reality of Everything

When Morgan retreats to her dilapidated beach house to outrun the grief and anxiety that's haunted her since losing her military boyfriend, she's hoping the renovation project will be enough to keep her moving forward—until her infuriatingly attractive next-door neighbor keeps showing up with help she didn't ask for. Jackson is a single-dad coast guard pilot with a hero complex and an unsettling ability to see right through Morgan's carefully constructed walls, but she's made a promise to herself: never again with a military man, never again with someone whose job comes with that kind of risk. What unfolds is a tender, achingly real story about two people learning that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone in, even when love feels like the most dangerous rescue mission of all.