After a gale wrecks the loading cranes at Breakwater Point and leaves the town’s old pilot station under inspection, harbor pilot Iona Mercer has six weeks to prove she can keep the channel safe or watch her career stall. Across the quay, glass artist Tomas Vale is commissioned to restore a storm-broken lighthouse lens for the town museum’s reopening, but the work is complicated by a hand tremor he hides from everyone. Forced to share a drafty workshop beside the harbor office, Iona and Tomas make themselves useful to one another in the practical, unromantic work of deadlines, measurements, and repairs. As the winter closure approaches, they must decide whether trust can be rebuilt with the same patience required to mend something fragile and precise.
After a gale wrecks the loading cranes at Breakwater Point and leaves the town’s old pilot station under inspection, harbor pilot Iona Mercer has six weeks to prove she can keep the channel safe or watch her career stall. Across the quay, glass artist Tomas Vale is commissioned to restore a storm...