For twenty years Gus Ouellette has given a dying harbor everything he has, running the fish co-op's failing dock on a bad shoulder while he floats half the fleet and pays down a debt he can never clear.
He stopped wanting anything for himself long ago, certain he had not earned it.
Amos Kean sails in alone on a small, tired boat with no name on her bow, broke and guarded, and he means to take on water and leave with the tide.
A drifter who lost everything to a company's smiling lie, Amos recognizes the same kind of offer now circling Merritt Harbor and the drowning fleet.
As the two wary men fight to save the co-op by holding on instead of selling out, a coming deal could take the harbor and the one bond neither of them can stand to lose.
