The Last Ferry Home

Imani Clarke comes to the remote island of Kilbrae for six months, one research paper away from the permanent university career she has spent years chasing. Then a winter storm wrecks her whale-monitoring equipment, and ferry captain Euan MacRae becomes the man she keeps needing. Euan is steady, capable, and far too easy to want. As they rebuild her project together, friendship turns into something harder to ignore. But Imani has an end date, a career waiting on the mainland, and no intention of reshaping her future around a man she has only just met. Then her recordings begin showing something troubling. A proposed shipping corridor could disturb the whales moving through Kilbrae’s waters, and threaten the livelihoods built around them. Worse, Imani discovers that the organisation funding her research has ties to the same proposal. Speaking plainly could damage the career she came here to secure. Staying quiet could mean betraying the work, the island, and the woman she thought she was.