When Isla MacLeod returned to the island for what was meant to be a short summer stay, she never intended to remain.
But among the quiet harbour roads, shifting Atlantic weather, and familiar faces she left behind years earlier, something long dormant begins slowly awakening again.
As the island moves through another Hebridean summer, Isla finds herself drawn back into the rhythms of community life ? helping at the harbour café, rediscovering her love of drawing, and reconnecting with Jamie MacRae, whose steady presence has become impossible to ignore.
Surrounded by ferry arrivals, changing tides, village gatherings, and the endless movement of the sea, Isla begins to realise that healing rarely arrives dramatically. Sometimes it comes quietly through friendship, belonging, and the simple courage of staying
