Grandview Surf Beach produces a fun, reliable wave, friendly to beginners and attractive to tourists. To Robert Walsh, it is less a surfing destination than a place steeped in the memories of the family he lost. During none of his semi-annual visits did he ever suspect Grandview would one day become the center of his world.

Empowered by his considerable wealth, Robert enjoys a freedom uncommon to his millennial peers. No amount of money, however, can fill the emptiness inside him.

Letty knows she isn't cut out for the game the other girls play. She'll never have the perfect beach body. Men look past her like she was part of the scenery, apart from her boyfriend, a man she does not love.

Esme longs for the affections her husband, Sean, gives freely to other women. Sean's concern is the pursuit of any woman with whom he experiences mutual attraction. Heather, Sean's sister, seeks to save her brother's marriage, but will her stay in Encinitas lead to the imperiling of her own?

Grandview is a loose rifacimento of Anna Karenina, totaling approximately 61,000 words.