The Echo of Your Heart: A friends-to-more slow-burn small-town Alaska romance of secret pining and an overdue homecoming (Welcome to Redemption, Alaska)

He made her mix CDs. Drove her home in the dark. Idled at the curb through an entire Alaska winter just so she'd have a ride after practice. Scottie Sheridan has spent seven years proving she doesn't need Redemption — or anyone in it. She films reality survival shows in the Alaskan wilderness, runs camera on heaving fishing boats in driving rain, chases the perfect shot in every dangerous place her boss can find. The job is her whole life. The adrenaline fills the gaps. It's also going to get her killed. And Tate McGuire knows it. When a last-minute assignment pulls Scottie back to Redemption — back to her ailing father, her complicated stepsister, and the man she never let herself really see — Tate is done pretending he's fine with "just friends." He's watched her take every risk but the one that matters. He's prayed over every dangerous gig she's taken. And now she's here, filming on the same wild waters he pilots for a living, and every instinct he has is screaming. When a violent collision on Prince William Sound puts Scottie in the water and Tate in after her, fifteen years of silence finally breaks the surface. She left because staying hurt too much.