Hyder King has built his life on the water.

A former Coast Guard rescue diver, he now captains fishing charters for his family’s wilderness lodge in the remote Alaskan town of Alpenglow. Easygoing, capable, and endlessly kind, Hyder has always known how to save others.

Dr. Marisol Rivera-Kelly has only ever saved herself.
A single mother from the South Bronx, she fought her way through medical school while raising her son, building a life defined by hard choices and careful boundaries. Moving to Alaska is meant to give her child something better. Something safer.

In a town that watches, meddles, and cares in equal measure, distance becomes impossible. And with every shared glance, every quiet moment, Sola feels the walls she built so carefully begin to crack.

Because attraction is easy.

Trust is not.

And loving a man who belongs to the water may be the biggest risk of all.