Architect Meredith Cole retreated to her grandmother's lighthouse cottage to escape the wreckage of her broken engagement and lost career. She wanted solitude. She wanted peace. She didn't want a half-drowned stranger crashing onto her dock in the middle of a nor'easter. Gabriel Stone is a bestselling author who hasn't written a word since his wife died. Trapped together by the storm, he and Meredith form an unlikely pact: to stop hiding from life and start rebuilding. But as the days pass and their connection deepens, they discover that some storms don't destroy—they reveal what was meant to be all along. A sweeping romance about healing, hope, and finding love in the aftermath of loss.