"Storms show up and there ainât a thing we can do to stop them."
Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now sheâs a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her bossâs demands, she has little
time to think about the past ... until her latest gig lands her a stoneâs throw from everything she left behind.
Searching off the coast of Charleston for a secluded site to film a key scene, Sonny wanders onto a private barrier island and encounters its reclusive owner, known by locals as the Monster of Indigo Isle. What she finds is a man much more complex than the myth.
Once a successful New York attorney, Hudson Renfrowâs grief has exiled him to his island for several years. He spends his days alone, tending his fields of indigo, then making indigo dyeâand he has no interest in serving the intrusive needs of a film company or yielding to Sonnyâs determined curiosity.
But when a hurricane makes landfall on the Carolina coast, stranding them together, an unlikely friendship forms between the two damaged souls. Soon the gruff exterior Hudson has long hidden behind crumblesâexposing the tender part of him thatâs desperate for forgiveness and a second chance.
A story of hanging on and letting go, of redemption and reconciliation, and of alove that heals the deepest wounds, from the author of the breakout bestseller Under the Magnolias.