From the hallway, a voice he hadn’t heard in 18 months: “Still cynical, I see.”

Erica stood there, suitcase in hand. “The bridge is flooded. I’m stuck.”

Three people. One storm. A hundred unspoken truths.

A cynical novelist, his hopelessly romantic daughter, and his ex-wife—who broke his heart—find themselves caught in the same small coastal town during a storm, forced to confront the love they’ve all been running from.

“And he’s twenty-three. A poet.”