Sometimes the safest harbor is the one you never saw coming.

Malia’s life is bound to the island. Her late mother’s tiki bar, her aging Nana, and the steady routine she’s never dared to break.

But one unexpected visitor may change everything.

Eli’s sailboat wasn’t supposed to stop here, but when his motor fails, he’s left stranded, caught between grief for his dying brother’s last wish and the horizon he can’t stop chasing.

They’re both haunted by loss. Both afraid to open their hearts. Yet when Malia offers Eli a room under her roof, attraction brews into something neither of them expected. To keep things simple, Malia proposes a deal: comfort without complications, just until his boat’s repaired.

But when a storm traps them together, Eli confesses the truth: he’s falling for her and asks Malia to leave everything behind and sail away with him.

Leave? Malia could never imagine abandoning the only life she’s ever known, or the bar that keeps her anchored to it.

But in the end, just as storms don’t ask permission.

Neither does the heart..