Sometimes a voyage changes more than your destination.

Edward Wentworth, buttoned-up and British, has spent his life hidden behind duty and decorum, his true self carefully pressed beneath the weight of expectation–mostly his own. Jack Harte, an American regional actor and widower, carries a different burden: the grief of suddenly losing his husband.

When the Queen Victoria sets sail from Miami to Southampton, a chance encounter draws them together. Jack’s openness unsettles Edward’s carefully constructed armor, while Edward’s quiet steadiness offers Jack an anchor he hadn’t known he was seeking.

As the Atlantic stretches before them, conversation turns into confession, and attraction feels dangerously like hope. In fourteen days at sea, both men must decide if they will risk their fears, their histories, and the lives they thought they wanted—for a life neither expected.

By the time the ship docks, they will know whether they're ready for a second crossing.

Debut novel coming soon!