Chapter 5

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Marine biologist Claire Whitfield is alone on a remote Maine island when a October storm strands Ethan Cross, the precise, reserved founder of the foundation that funds her work, at her door. What begins as a professional encounter over methodology papers and dive protocols deepens into something neither of them can treat as only research. As winter windows open and the data confirms her predictions, Claire and Ethan must navigate the complication of his funding, the memory of the woman he lost, and the decision to build something permanent together, on the coast and in each other.

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