From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a slow-burn romance about love, family, and what it means to become the truest version of yourself.

Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away.

Stranded on an island for the next eighteen months alongside the crew and her fiancé’s cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. And begins to question the life she always thought she wanted. With Dominic, an ex–army medic, she finds true peace—and a version of herself that she doesn’t need to explain. They resist their connection at first, but as months wear on, and the hope of rescue fades, something real starts taking shape, built on who they are when everything else is stripped away.

When they’re finally found, the world hasn’t changed. But they have. In the height of a modern media frenzy, learning to live as the people they’ve become will challenge not only their definition of survival, but love.

© 2026 by Rebecca Yarros, all rights reserved.

<p>Rebecca Yarros is the #1 <i>New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, and <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestselling author of over twenty novels, including <i>Fourth Wing</i> and <i>In the Likely Event</i>, with multiple starred <i>Publishers Weekly</i> reviews and a <i>Kirkus</i> Best Book of the Year. She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for over twenty years. A mother of six, she is currently surviving the teenage years with two of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find Rebecca at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine coon cat named Artemis, who rules them all.</p><p>Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, cofounded in 2019 with her husband.</p>