After months on the run, Tara Moore thinks she’s finally found a place to hide. A windswept Irish island offers solace from the dark past she crossed an ocean to escape. But quiet places have secrets of their own.

When red roses bloom out of season, whispers of a centuries-old curse stir in the village. The locals claim she’s descended from a selkie—a seal-woman who haunts the island, desperate to be set free.

Dominic O’Sullivan, a guarded single father, wants no part of the gossip or the woman at the center of it. But the more time he spends with her, the harder she becomes to resist.

When a dangerous figure from her past arrives, they must all face the truth: Tara’s fate is bound to the selkie’s, and breaking the curse may be the only way to save them both.