Chapter One: StrandedKaylie stirs and comes awake to the strangest dawn she has ever seen. The boat is speeding along in a dense pearly mist, but even as she watches it, the grey-blue sky, streaked with a radiant pink, becomes visible through the vapor.
She glances up at the two men who had travelled her with her. First at Will, because he's familiar and right there. His fingers are curled in her hair, petting her lightly. His crooked grin and relaxed posture is remarkably reassuring. She smiles back at him, and then looks fleetingly at the lean, bronzed features of the other occupant of the boat, who looks inscrutable in the morning night.
He has a hand on the motor, and he makes a low, unhappy growl at the state of it.
She tries to sit up immediately, feeling foolish for being asleep
