Some connections don’t begin in this lifetime.

Cole Whitfield has spent twenty years on the waters of the Florida Keys making peace with everything he couldn’t find on land, including his marriage. At fifty-three, he is a man of tide tables and clean logs and things that can be measured. He doesn’t believe in the unexplainable.

Then a silver sedan pulls onto the adjacent property and Emma Callahan steps out and looks at the water the same way he looks at the water. Two seconds of contact on a boat dock, and something that has no business happening, happens.

What follows is a past lives love story — told in present-day longing, through visions that arrive like memories from lifetimes neither of them can name, in the slow reckoning of a love that has been returning far longer than either of them knows.

The water has always known. They are only beginning to catch up.