The Ocean Is Everyone's But It Is Not Yours

Aurora Mahoney runs one of three whale-watching businesses on the Monterey coast. It’s a life of great beauty, wonder, and camaraderie, but after one of her fellow captains retires, a new, and decidedly different, sort of captain takes his place.

What had been a simple and charmed life is clouded by a sinister, and yet aloof, new force on the waterfront. This is a page-turning examination of what makes a paradise, and how easily one human can destroy it.