Over twenty-five years ago, Liam Tate and
Acadia McCormick Knox fell in love. It was summer on
Nantucket, and seventeen-year-old Liam knew that wealthy,
college-bound Cadie was way out of league for a local boy
who restored boats for a living. Yet the two became
inseparable, seizing every chance to slip away in Liam’s
runabout to secluded spots, far from the world that was
trying to keep them apart.
After Cadie returned home
to New York and discovered she was pregnant, her parents
crushed any hope of communicating with the boy she’d left
behind. Unanswered letters and calls couldn’t change
Liam’s heart, but over the years he’s settled into a
simple, solitary life in his rambling beachfront house.
Now he’s learned that Cadie is returning to Nantucket for
the opening of her son’s art show. Over a weekend of
revelations and poignant memories, Cadie and Liam have an
opportunity to confront the difference time can make, the
truths that never alter, and the bittersweet second
chances that arrive just in time to steer a heart back
home…