The sweetest summer

the long version

A mermaid statue could be the cause of heartbreak or everlasting romance for a practical-minded police chief and his first love. Every instinct told Police Chief Clancy Flynn that his island's claim to fame was nothing but a silly tourist attraction. But now and then, he couldn't help but wonder if his lifetime of bad romances-- starting with the pretty tourist who broke his fourteen-year-old heart-- could be traced back to a childhood prank involving that very statue. Then one day the pretty tourist comes barreling back into Bayberry-- all grown-up and on the run with her niece. Though Evelyn McGuinness is wanted for kidnapping, she tries to persuade Clancy that there's more to the story. Now the by-the-book police chief must make the toughest decision of his life: to take Evelyn into custody-- or into his arms....