Award-Winning Author & Screenwriter
Bound by fate and divided by war, a woman of the coast and a man from the sea must decide whether trust is more dangerous than truth.
1942 — Portmullen, Northern Ireland
Deirdre Foster keeps watch over the sea from a lighthouse on Northern Ireland’s rugged coast, trying to hold together a life shaped by absence, duty, and the quiet judgment of a village that has never fully embraced her.
Josef Leubig is a German U-boat sailor with too many secrets and too few choices. Under the command of a captain driven by ambition and certainty, he has learned to guard every word, every doubt, and every truth that might condemn him.
When a violent night brings Josef to Deirdre’s shore, their lives become bound by a secret neither can safely keep nor safely surrender.
With suspicion closing in and the cost of mercy rising, Deirdre and Josef must decide how much of themselves they are willing to risk for a stranger, a secret, and the fragile hope that something good can survive the war.