When Ava Hamilton returns to Driftwood Bay after ten years away, it's not for a reunion-it's for closure. Her estranged father has passed, leaving her the crumbling seaside inn she once swore she'd never set foot in again. Ava plans to sell it, fast. But the inn is full of ghosts-not the haunting kind, but the ones that linger in peeling wallpaper, handwritten ledgers, and memories she's tried to forget.

Then there's Liam Beckett-the boy she left behind, now the man who's been quietly tending the inn's bones, and still very much in her heart.

As stormy nights turn into sunlit mornings, and shared renovations uncover more than just rot behind the walls, Ava finds herself drawn into a rhythm she didn't know she missed. But when a tempting offer threatens to pull her back into her old life, she must choose between the escape she always dreamed of and the roots she never expected to want.

Because sometimes love doesn't come in grand gestures.

Sometimes it comes in steady hands, leaky roofs, and second chances.

And sometimes, the tide doesn't carry you away-

it carries you home.