Description
In the coastal town of Crescent Harbor, 54-year-old geologist Harper Lane has rebuilt her life around tidal charts and ecosystem research after a painful divorce left her guarded. Her days at the Turning Tide Research Center are strictly scientific—until the return of her former field partner, 56-year-old retired sailor Owen Briggs, upends everything.
A powerful corporation’s plan to build a massive pier threatens the harbor’s fragile tides and wildlife. Harper and Owen are forced to co-lead the urgent impact study, throwing them back into the moonlit tidepool surveys and storm-battered nights they once shared. Old tensions and an unspoken spark resurface as they navigate the project together.
Harper’s friend Mia urges her to trust again, while Owen wrestles with his own sense of being unmoored after retirement. Their professional rhythm slowly softens into easier banter, quiet confessions, and charged moments that neither can ignore. A storm that traps them overnight forces the truth of their past fallout into the open.
As the corporation pushes forward and the community divides, Harper and Owen must decide whether protecting the tides is worth risking their hearts. In this sensual second-chance romance, they rediscover the partnership—and the love—that once anchored them.
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