A decade ago, the wind took her. Now, it's brought her back to the man who never stopped grieving.Amara Chen walked away from her seaside hometown of Crest Harbor after a devastating storm claimed her father's life. She survived the sea's fury, but consumed by guilt and her mother's unforgiving blame, she did the only thing she could: she let everyone believe the ocean had taken her, too.For ten years, Amara built a new life in the city, burying the past beneath success and carefully constructed distance. But when she returns to Crest Harbor for her mother's funeral, the past refuses to stay drowned. In her mother's dusty cottage, she finds a box containing dozens of letters addressed to her, all of them unopened.They are from Elias, her first love, the boy who waited on the pier every day hoping she'd return. He wrote to her ghost for five years, pouring out his love, his grief, and his misplaced guilt over her 'death, ' completely freezing his own life in the process.Now, Amara is confronted by a man who has mourned her, and who looks at her like she's a terrifying, beautiful specter. With the wind carrying the melody of the song Elias wrote for her, Amara must decide: Will she continue to hide behind the secret she created, or risk ripping open a decade-old wound to fight for a love that, against all odds, might still be alive?A haunting and heartfelt second-chance romance about the power of memory, the fierce pull of home, and the love that survives even the cruelest storms.