The water always calms me down. It made me feel free and happy. Complete. Even when something was wrong with my life, even when it felt like everything could fall apart, being in the water felt safe. Even a shower was enough to make me feel better when I felt sick. The dystopian movies that showed a dry, waterless world scared me more than any horror movie would. How could anyone live in a world without the sea? Or a lake? It felt like a very sad life to me. Until the water betrayed me.—Freya is a world renowned swimming champion who’s forced ti return home to Emerald Falls, where life is simpler and slower. She comes back a star, but with secrets and scars that Landon, her ex and love of her life, finds himself trying to uncover. Can she mend her own broken heart —- and overcome her traumas? And will she resist her charming ex and his adorable daughter?