Anchor Point

Elijah has been released from prison, and he finds the world beyond its walls harder to survive than the years behind bars. Inside, his misery was at least familiar company. Now he has to confront everything he has lost, and a gap in his chest that nothing seems able to fill. He has built a tangled web of excuses to keep people away, but that defense begins to weaken when Evangeline, a woman shackled and broken, enters his life. Bringing her close would mean putting her in the path of the danger that follows him.

Evangeline was seized, held as property, and destined for sale to whoever paid the most. The people who took her have no conscience, so she is wary of the man who frees her. He is an ex-convict and a pirate, and she has every reason to doubt him. Yet the darkness that surrounds him cannot conceal the decent man underneath. She comes to see that Elijah is not her enemy, even though he is damaged and tormented, and that he may be exactly what she needs.

The novel follows both of them through anguish, regret, faith and the slow work of acceptance. Their bond is a heavy anchor that could drag them both under. This is the fourth book in the Inland Seas series, which also includes Line, Rogue Wave, Safe Harbor and Dark Tide.