First Light

Every step closer to Oliver Grant risks shattering the fragile peace Wendy Takahashi spent three years piecing together. A surf shop owner on the San Diego coast, she knows how to read riptides—but nothing prepared her for the quiet widowed carpenter whose daughter walked through her door asking for wave lessons. Oliver's gentleness undoes her defenses; his seven-year-old Lily claims a piece of her heart she thought was sealed shut. Loving them means confronting everything she escaped—and discovering whether she can survive tenderness after only knowing its opposite.