Publisher's Synopsis
"The stranger hadn't moved from where she'd left him, not that she'd expected him to, but his chest rattled every now and then, evidence of life that scared her as much as soothed her." When Bernadette Laurent suffers another loss in her life, she abandons humanity and moves to the island that her father left her. There she finds the solitude she hoped for. For awhile. One day when a storm rolls in, a lifeboat washes upon her shore, destroying her island sanctuary. In this stranger, Bernadette finds more than she bargains for, including a ticket home, if she is brave enough to take it.
