Sand, sea, and the ripping surf of Byron Bay, Sydney was all seventeen-year-old Alex Mahoney needed. His young life had one goal; win the beach's King of the Surf contest and fulfill a dream his father had before him, so it was just unimaginably cruel to be ripped away on the verge of it and be dumped into Santa Cruz, California.

He didn't want to say goodbye to his few friends, he didn't want to have to suck up to his new stepfather and he definitely didn't want to go any deeper into his new high school than he needed.

There were a lot of things Ajax didn't want, but the breaking point was that he didn't want to be attracted to the untouchable Rhys Blake the head surfer in the town. If perfection had a name, life, body, and girlfriend, it was Rhys.

His attraction was doomed to die, and just as he gave up on it, the tides of time intervened and he realized that all things were not as they seemed.