She talks to sea creatures. He writes incident reports. Cliffhaven thinks they're perfect for each other.
Marine biologist Sharon Powell came to Cliffhaven, Maine, to study sea creatures. She did not come to be rescued from a tide pool by the most annoyingly calm Coast Guard officer on the Atlantic seaboard.
But when the town requires her to coordinate fieldwork with Lieutenant Zach Miller's patrol schedule, her six-month research grant becomes a daily negotiation between a woman who treats "calculated risk" as a job description and a man who rations his smiles like emergency supplies.
Then Zach copies two hundred and sixteen pages of handwritten tidal records because he thinks she'll find them useful. He adjusts his patrol route by twelve minutes. And when a government agency threatens to destroy her research site, the man assigned to facilitate? Also Zach.