First published 2025
Hannah Rooney has perfected the art of invisibility. At twenty, she navigates nursing school while plotting her escape from Rockaway Watch with her younger sister Kaylie. Hannah wants nothing to do with her criminal family's world. She counts down the days until Kaylie turns eighteen and they can disappear together. Tobias Hawthorne II carries himself like the wealthy heir he is. Doors open for the son of one of America's richest families. But beneath his sharp features and careless demeanor, Toby harbors dangerous secrets and burning rage. One stormy night changes everything. Arson and nature's fury claim three lives, including Kaylie's. Toby survives but emerges from the ocean with no memory of his identity. A fisherman pulls him from the water and asks Hannah to help nurse the stranger back to health. Hannah knows exactly who this man is. She knows he destroyed her sister. Now she faces an impossible choice. Her hatred demands she let him die, but something deeper compels her to save him. Toby remembers nothing except Hannah's face when he first opens his eyes. She becomes his anchor in a world he cannot recall, even as she struggles with feelings for the person she should despise most.
Genres: mystery, contemporary, thriller, contemporary-romance
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Rockaway Watch
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
400 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: mental-illness