Hailing from Plano, Texas, budding jewelry designer Zoe is the girl we all knew in high school. You know, the beautiful, popular confident one with a heart of gold? When her boyfriend Sebastian started stalking her and even tried to kill her during their senior year of college - she just had to get out of Texas. Luckily, her favorite cousin April invited Zoe and her best friend Stacey to escape to her place in Pacific Shores, California for the summer.

Zoe's lifelong best friend is Stacey, and she's had her entire future mapped out since she was a little girl. Wicked smart and maybe a little uptight, Stacey had had to work hard for everything in life, and plans on working her way through law school, which she's set to start in the fall. Stacey is thrilled to be spending her last summer away from the real world in Pacific Shores with Zoe, even though she'll have to find a job to afford it.

Ex-model and global business woman April has always thought of her cousin Zoe as more of a little sister than a cousin. Even though they spent every summer together as kids, April grew up worlds away, in the Fox family's sumptuous coastal mansion. Her world may seem fabulous on the outside, but April has endured a lot of hardship in life: her mother left when she was a baby, and her beloved father Gabriel died a few years ago, leaving her an orphan in charge of a billion dollar fortune.

Christian is a bit of a mystery man, and a hot one at that. He rode the waves into Pacific Shores a few summers ago, with little more than the clothes on his back and a surf board. Having enrolled in the oceanography program at the local college and made a good friend in Deputy Will Carpenter, Chris makes ends meet by working as a carpenter and handy man. He stared doing odd jobs for April, and it wasn't long before they discovered they had a lot in common. But is April's cousin Zoe more Christian's speed?

Born and bred in Pacific Shores, easy-going Will grew up idolizing his father, the town Police Chief. Following his dad into the family business, Will had to work hard to prove himself worthy of becoming a police officer. Most people in town think his father is a hard ass, but Will's much more easygoing. Although he's done some dating amongst the locals, Will has yet to find the right woman for him, and is beginning to doubt if she'll ever come along.