Molly Ferrell has one goal in life—to write a book about the long-lost poet Michael O'Flannery, who died under mysterious circumstances. To learn more about him, she's come to the town of Hidden Harbor, Maine, only to meet with silence and hostility from the locals who knew him.

Chief among them is Jake Marley, a carpenter and a sourpuss who thinks Molly's obsession is just that, an obsession. But she's getting beneath his skin, and all his secrets are at risk if he doesn't get rid of her.

Molly knows that something's going on, and she's determined to find out the truth. Who and what is Jake Marley? Whatever happened to Michael O'Flannery? And why the hell is she falling in love with a lying grump when she's got a book to write?

Trigger warning: contains references to suicide.