Easy Silence by Beth Rinyu is a very interesting tale of love and tragedy. This book was a melancholy read for me. It was a sweet romance about Samantha learning how to be who she TRULY wants to be and NOT who her parents EXPECT her to be and about Jax realizing that he is worthy of love. That what happened to him does NOT have to DEFINE him. 
 Samantha is eighteen. It is the summer before she is supposed to start college at Georgetown (her parents choice) and she is spending the summer with her grandmother who is fading quickly with Alzheimers. She is rescued from a near-drowning, thanks to the powerful rip-currents, by an angry man named Jaxson. And so begins their love story. 
 This was an enjoyable read. Again, it was melancholy, but not truly sad. The underlying theme was hope and peace and true love.