Victoria is pretty sure she's going to have the worst summer in history. It's bad enough that her agonizing shyness keeps her from making friends her own age, but now that her beloved older brother is deploying to Afghanistan, she's prepared to spend her vacation alone. That is, until an accident forces her to get a job working at her crabby neighbor's ice cream stand on the shores of Lake Superior. To her surprise, Mr. Poller's grouchy company turns out to be the very thing she needed to take a chance on the new kid on the block, solve a puzzling mystery, and come to terms with what it really means to be brave.