From award-winning author Ellie Block comes a heartwarming novel to remind us that forgiveness, like the sea, has tides—and it’s never too late to sail toward the sunset.

When Catherine Moran’s long-lost brother bequeaths her a boat in Key West, she’s not sure what hurts more: his death or the decades they’ve been estranged.

The fifty-seven-year-old thinks this could be the answer to her financial strain since putting their mother in a memory care facility, but when she arrives on the island, her bonanza is a bust. The boat is a dilapidated trawler supposedly once owned by Ernest Hemingway, and a handsome buddy of her brother is living onboard but refuses to jump ship.

Because both Catherine and her brother were named after Hemingway characters, she can’t shake the author’s shadow. Instead of unwinding, Catherine ends up crisscrossing the island trying to drum up interest in the barely operable vessel. Key West is south of her normal. However, if she wants to unravel the mystery of the boat and her brother, that’s exactly the direction Catherine needs to go.

Ellie Block began her writing career under her given name Brett Ellen Block—she, too, was named for a Hemingway character. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award–nominated thriller The Lightning Rule. Her debut short-story collection, Destination Known, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and garnered her the distinguished Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. As Ellen Block, she also writes women’s fiction, including the internationally lauded novels The Language of Sand and The Definition of Wind.

Ellie received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied fine arts and won the Hopwood and Haugh awards for fiction. She went on to earn graduate degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of East Anglia’s esteemed fiction-writing program. Her work has been translated into numerous languages around the world. For more about the author, please visit www.brettellenblock.com.