Description

In the sun-drenched coastal haven of Crescent Harbor, Isla Reynolds has spent years keeping The Gilded Anchor running while her marriage quietly unraveled. At forty-eight, she is poised, professional, and determined to sign the divorce papers waiting on her desk—until a high-profile couple books an extended second-chance honeymoon cruise and insists that both Isla and her soon-to-be ex-husband, Jax, serve as their personal hosts.

Forced back into the close quarters of the luxury yacht they co-own, Isla and Jax must navigate stormy seas, intimate island stops, and the mirrored fractures of the honeymoon couple’s own relationship. Old rhythms return during provisioning runs and deck duties, but every shared laugh and quiet gesture threatens the careful walls Isla has built around her heart.

As squalls rise and tempers flare below deck, Isla confronts the truth she has avoided: the man whose sun-bleached smile once made her believe in forever is still the only person who can steady her when the world tilts. Jax, too, begins to see the cost of the years she carried everything alone.

With the future of their business and the possibility of a different kind of love on the line, Isla must decide whether to keep the divorce papers or risk rewriting the rules of their life together on the open water.