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.