Normally a confident and adventurous sixteen-year-old, Sierra returns from a missionary tour in England to a number of unsettling changes in her home and family
While helping to care for her ailing grandmother and trying to adjust to a new school and a new city, sixteen-year-old Sierra hopes that God will bring something good into her life
When Sierra meets the entire gang at the beach party of the century she realizes that it's important to be careful what you wish for.
When Sierra volunteers to help at a local shelter for the homeless, she finds herself much more involved than she planned, especially when Paul shows up there as a staff worker
Although she is excited about the prospects of a great summer when both Randy and Drake show an interest in her, sixteen-year-old Sierra finds her inexperience with dating leads to confused, unsettling feelings.
While attending a wedding with friends, sixteen-year-old Sierra more fully understands the value of sexual abstinence and promises God that she will save herself for marriage
While on a trip to Switzerland with her friend and her friend's aunt, Sierra meets a very special young man, and all three women learn important lessons about love and forgiveness
Faced with a serious lack of communication with her sister Tawni and her friend Amy, Sierra tries to trust in God to help her understand her relationships with the people in her life and not prejudge them.
While spending all of her time corresponding with and daydreaming about her friend Paul who attends college in Scotland, Sierra Jensen finds the real world around her falling apart
While on a trip to Southern California with her friends and her brother who is scouting out potential colleges, Sierra realizes that she must soon make some decisions about her life
As Sierra and her friends celebrate their graduation from their Christian high school and their acceptance at Rancho Corona University, she worries about the fate of her friend Paul, who may have been lost in a plane crash
On a trip to Southern California, Sierra has a rocky reunion with her love interest Paul, whom she has not seen in more than a year, and feels confusion yet again about their future
When a wealthy friend offers Sierra Jensen a vacation at an oceanfront beach house on the island of Oahu, Sierra envisions a quiet retreat where she can figure out what to do now that she's at the crossroads in her life. The timing coincides with a wedding that puts her face to face with Paul, her high school crush and introduces her to Jordan, the wedding photographer. Sierra and Jordan connect unexpectedly the next day and feel the damaging effects of a tropical storm that brings in the big waves and launches the annual surfing competition. Sierra begins to wonder why she and Jordan connected the way they did. But Jordan's lens and attention are focused on the surfers and he is not willing to let anyone get in his way of landing the next cover shot for Surf Days magazine. Sierra and Jordan came to Sunset Beach looking for different things. But as the surf pounds the North Shore, will they discover something better than either of them had imagined?