Liam’s life could be better. He’s recovering from a divorce and a bitter custody battle, which he loses. He dearly loves his six-year-old son, Lucas, but seeing him every second weekend is never enough. His one salvation is the sea. When he’s sitting on the sand, watching the waves rolling in, he feels at peace, calmed and restored.<br><br>One day, the waves are particularly high, and the sea particularly rough. He’s surprised to see someone swimming in such choppy seas. When Liam calls out to the man, asking if he needs help, the man simply waves back. Liam thinks he must be an idiot. Little does he know the person he sees is no man, which he discovers two days later.<br><br>When they meet, Liam is both horrified and fascinated. His curiosity produces a strange attraction that changes their lives irreversibly forever.

The Sound of the Sea

Ezra showed him a great shipwreck, with some of the wooden structure visible through the coral and seaweed. Off to one side lay a coral-encrusted cannon and what looked like a bottle. How long had these things been here?How many people had perished?


Onwards they swam, attracting no more than a few cursory glances from the locals, who went about their business in silence and ever watchful for anything larger or with more teeth. Ezra pointed upwards, drawing Liam’s attention to a humpback whale and her calf, coasting just beneath the surface like a giant spaceship through the cosmos. Liam wanted to swim up and say “hello,” or at least stay a little longer and watch unobtrusively from below, but Ezra had him by the hand and since his grip was strong, he had no choice but to follow.


Chapter 13