She was running — from the past, from the pain, from the danger that still breathed down her neck. A desperate leap into the raging river was her only chance... and perhaps, her last. But fate had other plans. Washed ashore between life and death, she is found by a man cloaked in secrets, performing a ritual meant for the lost. He wasn't looking for a soul to save. Yet when he sees her — broken, fierce, alive — something unspoken shifts. In a world where trust is fragile and hearts bear silent scars, they are drawn together by a storm greater than either can resist. Slowly, painfully, beautifully — love blooms not in the sunlight, but in the wild aftermath of survival. This is a story of two broken souls, the storm that nearly drowned them, and the love that quietly, relentlessly, refuses to let go.