Celia Brannock comes home for one reason. She must sell her estranged father's failing boatyard before the lender takes it.

Then Wren, the boatbuilder's eight-year-old daughter, kills the sale. Celia's father was like a grandfather to Wren. The yard was her second home. Now Celia shares an unfinished wooden boat, a 60-day debt clock and a dangerous attraction with the man her father loved like a son. And Wren's mother wants to take her out of state.