Groundswell
(Book)

After aspiring screenwriter Emma Guthrie leaves Kentucky for New York City, her dreams of making it big hit a wall with the reality of working in restaurants. But she eventually lands a job on a major movie and promptly falls in love with its heartthrob star, Garrett Walker. Caught up in the celebrity high life, Emma can't resist thoughts of happily-ever-after when Garrett proposes marriage. Seven years later, Emma's first produced screenplay has become a major hit, and Garrett is cheating on her. Emma flees to a sleepy beach town in Mexico, faces a deadly case of writer's block, and gets swept up in surfing, taking lessons with a hunky instructor named Ben, who makes "a heavenly chorus burst into song" upon removing his shirt.