Eighteen-year-old Summer has an unbelievable nannying gig for the summer e's going to Belize! But the family includes more than just the younger son, Joshie, who needs minding. There's also his big brother Bray, just her age, who clashes with Summer from the very beginning. Their season in paradise takes a more sinister turn when they must work together to survive being stranded on a remote island. Despite the Christian context, this romance has some steamy moments as Summer and Bray fall for each other. Fans of Burch's Halflings fantasy series will likely follow her into this realistic foray, told in alternating chapters, as Bray and Summer struggle not just to survive but to follow their convictions.

Gr 7-10 A fairly typical summer romance. Girl (Summer) goes to Belize for the summer as a nanny, clashes with her charge's popular teen brother (Bray), things go awry, and the two end up shipwrecked. What happens next is predictable, which doesn't necessarily discount this from being a good beach read. Where this book goes astray, unfortunately, is in the unnecessary physical transformation of Summer. At the start of the book, she fits a certain conservative modest teen girl stereotypelong floral dresses, mousy brown hair. Within a few chapters she's been given a complete makeoverhighlighted hair, cutoffs, tank tops. Among the intended audience, the message that an instant makeover will get the guy might not float so well. Despite being full of YA tropes, it is a readable novel. VERDICT Purchase where Christian romance flies off the shelves.— Sarah Jones, Clinton-Macomb Public Library, MI