Working full-time, going back to school, and raising a high school senior – Brooke Portman’s schedule in Holiday Beach is a whirlwind of obligations. As she turns the page into October, the few blank spots left on her calendar are being filled with the man who’s determined that she should have a life of her own with him in the picture. Sheriff Aaron Gillespie thinks he and Brooke can go the distance if they can get past the obstacles constantly being thrown in their path. When their kids’ social lives are busier than their own, and every date he and Brooke manage to have is interrupted by reports of criminal activity, it feels like the Halloween season is all tricks and no treats. Then Aaron and Brooke soon find themselves on opposites sides of the same arson case. One that threatens to burn their relationship to cinders.

It’s one thing when your friends throw you a surprise party for your 30th birthday. It’s something else when they each bring you a bachelor as a present. The high school sweetheart, the new-in-town billionaire, the local bad boy – her friends invited them all, but it’s the doctor who shows up by accident who is the dark horse in this birthday dating race. Gloria Vargas needs a reason to stick around in Holiday Beach, and a new romance would help ease the fact that her career prospects have stalled. Dr. Daniel Wyatt is in town to open a new medical practice, keep an eye on his aging grandparents, and do some wedding venue research for his cousin, but being bachelor number four is distracting him from his duties – and Gloria is a wonderful distraction. Is it a coincidence that Gloria and Daniel run into each other everywhere they go, or are matchmaking forces at work in Holiday Beach to make a birthday wish come true?