Have you ever met the right one at the wrong time?

I did. Eight years ago.

This is the story of the first time he walked into my life.

It was the summer before my final year in college, and just like every other summer, I was in Stoney Brook, Maine, to work the annual Tallship Festival.

The son of an oil magnate and top of my class, I didn't need to work—especially not as a bartender and dock hand—but I did need the few months away from all of the expectation and pressure, an escape that Stoney Brook granted me every year.

That escape got complicated when William Waters sailed over the horizon and swaggered his way into town.

A travel blogger sailing the world on an inherited schooner, this tall, tanned, and handsome hunk was about to rock my boat and knock my carefully charted plans off course.

It would take another eight years before the stars would finally align for us, but sometimes one weekend is all fate needs to change everything you thought you knew...

That summer would prove to be a precursor to the rest of our lives.

**trigger warning: The characters are happy at the end, but you might not be. This isn't your momma's HFN.**

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