Adrift

For eight years, Emma has kept on the move, passing through big cities because a crowd is the easiest place to disappear. Tempest Island unsettles that pattern. Rather than spending a few days there before heading on, she takes a job at the Island Surf Shop, even though she is strongly drawn to its owner.

Mark Phillips lost his wife a year earlier and is now raising their five-year-old daughter, Lily, on his own. His shop has been overlooked during the upheaval, and he needs to put it back on solid footing so his family's future feels secure. When Emma turns out to have exactly the skills he wants, he finds himself increasingly drawn to her as well.

Emma, however, is hiding something, and the past she has been outrunning is beginning to close in on her.