Victoria Donnelly wants to do something best at least one time in her life time. With five years of failed courtships behind her and the calendar inching closer to another birthday, she’s finally found a way to redeem herself in the eyes of her family. But her program requires her to come back to her city of Eagle Harbor, where overlooked feelings for a man she can’t ever have lay buried.

Elijah Cummings has loved Victoria for fifteen years. But fishermen’s sons don’t marry shipping and delivery barons’ daughters. He understands it. She knows it. The complete town knows it. Resolved to maintain his distance from Victoria, Elijah focuses on establishing a much needed life-saving station, risking his own lifestyle by rescuing sailors stuck aboard shipwrecks . until he learns she’s going to make an irreversible decision, one she’ll spend the rest of her lifestyle regretting.

He knows how exactly to save drowning sailors-but how is he to save the woman he loves from the biggest mistake of her existence . . . without destroying both their hearts in the process?