Maren needs distance from the life that taught her to apologize before anyone even accused her of doing something wrong. A new job as Dive Lead at a coastal dive operation offers exactly what she wants: salt air, steady work, and enough miles between her and the man she is trying to escape. What she does not expect is Caleb. Guarded, sharp-edged, and carrying grief he has never learned to set down, Caleb makes it clear that Maren's arrival has disturbed more than the staff schedule. The ocean may be peaceful, but the people around Tideglass are bound together by old losses, private loyalties, and memories that refuse to stay buried. Maren slowly finds friendship with Sienna, Tessa, Graham, and the rest of the crew, while Caleb becomes harder to dismiss as merely difficult. Beneath his anger is a man terrified of feeling too much again. Beneath Maren's careful independence are bruises, fears, and truths she is not ready to explain. Their attraction grows in the spaces where neither of them feels safe enough to call it love, forcing them to decide whether healing means forgetting the past or learning to live beside it. But one name from Caleb's history carries a secret Maren understands far better than she should, and the truth could change everything between them forever and completely.
Maren needs distance from the life that taught her to apologize before anyone even accused her of doing something wrong. A new job as Dive Lead at a coastal dive operation offers exactly what she wants: salt air, steady work, and enough miles between her and the man she is trying to escape. What ...