Olivia Sullivan lives in Seattle and works as an architect.  Without notice, she is fired from her job.
She decides to pack up and leave for Summer Island.  Summer Island is a small town on the Oregon coast.  It's where she grew up and where her father still lived...before he died.  

Olivia's friend, Jilly, lives in an old home called the Harbor House.  Jilly and her husband want to convert it into a bed and breakfast.  Jilly is a chef and hopes to open a restuarant.    

As Olivia is headed back into town, she is involved in a serious car accident and hurts her leg.  Rafe Russo is there to pull her from the car and save her.  The two had a secret relationship when they were younger and haven't seen each other in years.

After serving in the military, Rafe has been hired on as an officer for the town of Summer Island. Things become uncomfortable for Olivia as she has to deal with the set back of her injury and now an old flame, who she never expected, nor wanted to see again is back in town.  She is also having to deal with her father's estate.  

This story has several issues.  The author really needed to find a direction for her book and for the sanity of her readers.  There are so many story lines that start and never end.  For example:

*Olivia tells a bit about how her father was controlling.  There were a few examples found in the book but he wasn't abusive.  Olivia just eludes that he mean. 

*Olivia finds that she is financially ruined.  Her father's secrets begin to come out but are never resolved.  

*Rafe's military career is mentioned and he states this: "What did a smart, beautiful, rich girl like Olivia need with an angry screwup like him? She had never seen his dark streak and his anger.  Rafe had made sure of that.  But the Marines had pulled that part out of him. They had used his anger, honing his traits of independence and command to make him into a valuable weapon."  The problem is that this isn't mentioned again, nor is it expanded upon so I wasn't informed that he was a trained sniper or whatever.  Even at the end it was just mentioned how he was upset with his skills.  

* Why did she loose her job?  It may not have matter much in the beginning but when the subject keeps coming up, I want to know what happened.  

*Rafe's home life is never mentioned.  Parents? Homeless? What?

*Jilly's café? What happened with the plans for opening a bed and breakfast.

*Does Olivia end up opening a yarn shop?  

*A huge one is the title of the book.  Butterfly cove is mentioned twice but it's like the characters never go there and I'm not sure exactly where this place is.  
"They had parked on the wooded cliffs above Butterfly Cove, arguing about he meaning of an English poem that was a major part of Rafe's senior grade."
"There was a bad accident above Butterfly Cove."

I'm sure there are more.

Overall, the author really needed to narrow down the direction of this book.  The epilogue helps to settle some lingering questions but I swear the open ended story lines wore me out.  I can see why other readers had such an issue with this story.  The story was okay as things develop between Olivia and Rafe.  I thought they were working together to solve a mystery...but that didn't pan out.  The romance does take over and the author lost her path o the mystery sub plot.  This could have been the sole reason for her coming in to town.  This story needs an editor.  

Content: not a clean romance but not horribly dirty.  Mild language.  

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.