". . . a survival story of the highest order, navigating the complex terrain of marriage, medical crisis, and a future reimagined." --CAROLINE VAN HEMERT, award-winning author of The Sun is a Compass A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.