A woman with a secret, a man with a deep, dark past ...

Everly Arden is beginning a new life, yearning to overcome the loss of her husband. A new start in a seaside town seems just the thing to quell the ache in her heart. Everly’s come to Briney Cape with dreams of supporting herself as a seamstress. Never did she expect to find magic ... or passion.

Douglas Mandrake is a solemn widower with a drowning, pitch black past filled with loss. When Everly meets him, the sorrow in her can't help but call to the sorrow in him. But could she ever be loved by a stony seaman with such an intense stare, and dramatic eyes? A distinguished older man who can fell a hydra with one blow?

She tells herself no, that it mustn't be, but fate has different plans. Together against the roiling might of the sea, Everly and Mandrake must discover their own destinies, ease their shared pain, and perhaps uncover a secret in Everly’s past that could change everything.