A Nora Roberts series

The first in a quartet of books featuring four brothers from Chesapeake Bay. Cameron, Ethan and Philip are called home to honour their dying father's last request, and Cameron's life changes overnight when he has to start taking care of his youngest brother, a difficult teenager called Seth.

Ethan Quinn works to make the family's Chesapeake Bay boatbuilding business a success while struggling--despite his dark and painful past--to find happiness with the woman whom he has always loved.

Philip Quinn is juggling his high-powered advertising job and his new-found family duty of helping to care for his young adopted brother, Seth, when Dr. Sybill Griffin shows up in the sleepy town of St. Christopher.

Now an adult, and a successful artist, Seth is happy to return to Chesapeake Bay to the only real family he has ever known. There he encounters Drusilla Whitcomb Banks, a newcomer to the town - and way out of his league.