She came to the coast with a life someone else designed. He taught her to stand up—on the board, and in her own story.
Nora Ashby has spent her entire life inside her father’s blueprint—the right university, the right internship, the right trajectory toward a career she never chose. When she arrives at a coastal resort for a three-week stay before her next curated obligation, she expects nothing more than downtime.
Then she meets Miles Callahan, the resort’s surf instructor—a man who traded a promising academic career for salt water, morning sessions, and the quiet discipline of living on his own terms. What begins as lessons on a longboard becomes something neither of them planned.
Over three weeks of morning surf sessions, Nora and Miles build a slow, deliberate intimacy rooted in honesty and physical trust. Miles teaches Nora to read the ocean, to fall without apology, and to stop performing the version of herself that earned approval but never fit. But checkout is coming—and the life her father designed doesn’t include a surf instructor, a coastal town, or a woman who finally knows what she wants.
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