He and Ronnie get to know each other over walks on the beach and eventually develop feelings for each other. Will takes Ronnie to the aquarium to see an injured loggerhead turtle. A volunteer for the aquarium, Will is taping off the area around the nest. On her way home from the beach, she meets Will. Ronnie, who learns about the nest, camps out all night to protect them. Steve calls the local aquarium to get a cage to protect the eggs. The eggs are from a loggerhead sea turtle, an endangered species and are in danger of being eaten by raccoons. Later in the novel, Steve and Jonah discover a nest of eggs buried in the sand behind their house. Ronnie leaves when Marcus tries to hit on her in Blaze’s brief absence. After the show, they sit under the pier drinking beer. A police officer threatens to arrest Marcus and his group if he ever catches them doing that again. Marcus, a self-centered bad boy, throws a fireball toward Ronnie during his performance. Ronnie and Blaze go to watch a performance by Marcus, Blaze’s boyfriend. Blaze befriends Ronnie and helps her find a T-shirt stand. She feels equally out of place in Wrightsville Beach. Blaze, whose real name is Galadriel, is a beach girl whose parents are also divorced. A handsome beach volleyball player, Will Blakelee, knocks into her, spilling her soft drink down the front of her shirt. As she is cleaning her shirt soaked in soda, Ronnie meets Blaze after she accidentally bumps into her. On Ronnie’s first day in town, she escapes from the house to go to the Beach Seafood Festival. Kim drives her children to North Carolina and drops them off at their father’s house. Ronnie, on the other hand, thinks that this is a sign that her parents hate her. Jonah, Ronnie's ten-year-old brother, loves the idea and cannot wait to go. Ronnie’s mother decides to send Ronnie and her brother to spend the summer reconnecting with their father in North Carolina.
He is working on a stained-glass window for the church to replace one destroyed in a fire. He is now living rent-free in a house owned by the church until the church sells it. He abandoned his former lifestyle to live a quiet life in the beach town where he grew up. After he divorced his wife, he toured the country as a professional musician. He is a former concert pianist and teacher. She and her father used to share a love of playing the piano, but Ronnie gave up the piano after he left. Her father, Steve, returned to his hometown, Wrightsville Beach, on the southern coast of North Carolina. Estranged from her father, Ronnie has not spoken to him in three years or seen him when he visits New York. She has lost her way and yet does not to accept help or guidance from others, especially her parents. She has also abandoned her piano playing. Ronnie gets in trouble at school and disobeys her curfew.
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