Everything Bonnie Keeler believes about life and marriage changes the day she discovers her husband’s infidelity, which he says is caused by her romance writing. She feels shamed into giving up her passion – creating stories of mystery and romance; always with happily-ever-after endings. Leaving everything behind, she travels to Provincetown, where she can wallow in self-pity and drown her sorrows in the ocean.

Two things interfere with Bonnie’s self-imposed solitude—a seafaring ghost in her rental house who seems very protective of her, and Robert Garrett, a soft-spoken bookseller, who quietly infiltrates her life. Rob tends to discount the ghost’s existence until it saves Bonnie’s life. The discovery of an old journal helps them solve the mystery of the ghost’s identity, and Bonnie experiences a reawakening of her artistic passion as she writes the ghost’s story.

With her summer lease on the cottage soon ending, Bonnie wonders if she has time to heal in other ways, perhaps finding love with a quirky bookseller who offered her selfless, unconditional friendship and laughter when she needed it most.