When she was six years old, a stranger rescued her from the sea. Thirty years later, she has to rescue herself…

Haunted by a childhood brush with death, Dahlia Polinski clings to safety. She's built a cloistered life in her Pennsylvania town, filled with routine, close family ties, and carefully maintained distance from anything that might unsettle her sense of security.

But when her ailing father makes an impossible request—to find the stranger who rescued her from drowning thirty years ago—Dahlia is thrust into the deep waters of a past she's spent her life avoiding. Her search leads her to a reserved and wary man in New Hampshire, whose own scars seem to mirror hers in ways she doesn't expect.

As she unravels the mystery of the man who saved her, Dahlia is forced to confront the currents within herself—those of fear, grief, and crippling anxiety she has long ignored. The more she tries to understand the guarded man from her past, the harder it is to shake the feeling that he holds a piece of something she's been missing all along. Little by little, she faces the forces pulling her under, leaving the question lingering: can she find the strength to trust, to let go, and to embrace the risks of truly living?