Four years after Julian Thorne vanished from Willow Harbor without explanation, he walks back into Clara's bookstore like a ghost from a life she's tried to forget. Now he's a travel photographer with haunted eyes, she's the town's bookish heartkeeper, and between them lingers everything that was never said-or settled.
As sudden autumn storms rattle the coastal town, Clara must decide whether to slam the door on the past or risk reading the next chapter of a story that shattered her once before. But Julian carries secrets darker than mere abandonment, and the truth might break them both anew.