Sara Prentiss is not impressed when best-selling thriller author Adam Merrill arrives on the campus of Chandler College to team-teach her creative writing class, and when Adam’s biggest fan – Sara’s elderly housemate, Olivia –– invites him to move in, Sara is infuriated. Worse, she’s worried because Adam’s hunt for his next story leads him to probe a mystery in Olivia’s past. Before long, however, Sara starts to wonder if one summer with Adam will be long enough.