One True Wind

Racing champion Margot Sinclair hasn't set foot in a boatyard in three years. Not since the accident that took the man she loved, and the version of herself who used to want things.

Then a consulting job pulls her to Bristol, Rhode Island, to help restore a century-old yacht for a boatbuilding company with a name people say like scripture. Merrick Boatworks. And Declan Merrick, the confident, quietly stubborn CEO who built his whole life on the belief that his family's legacy was something to be proud of.

It isn't long before Margot finds the first crack in that legacy. Then another. What she uncovers threatens to unravel a hundred and thirty years of history, cost Declan everything he's built, and force them both to choose between the story that's easy to tell and the one that's actually true.

Margot came to Bristol to consult on a boat. She didn't expect to find a truth worth fighting for, a town worth loving, or a man worth trusting with the parts of herself she'd stopped believing anyone would want.

One True Wind is a slow-burn small-town romance about grief, legacy, and the difference between protecting the people you love and protecting the story you tell about them. Set against the real maritime history of Bristol, Rhode Island - Herreshoff heritage, the oldest Fourth of July parade in the country, and the honest, unglamorous work of building something true.