Love at the Edge of the World : A Betrayed Photographer
"You fled your previous life and came here. However, despite our best efforts, some of us are unable to run.
The million Instagram followers of renowned travel photographer Elena Moretti think she has the ideal existence. Her fiancé Marcus and her best friend/business partner Jade have been routinely stealing her work, undermining her contracts, and preparing to force her out of her own brand the minute she signs the largest deal of her career. This is the heartbreaking truth hidden behind the filtered photos.
Elena loses everything—not only her friendship and relationship—when she learns of their betrayal just hours before a gallery opening that would define her career. She is publicly portrayed by Marcus and Jade as unstable, envious, and creatively bankrupt. Overnight, her reputation falls apart. Sponsors abandon her. Marcus is supported by her family, who term her "dramatic" and "ungrateful" for discarding a "good man."
Elena drives wildly into a strong coastal storm, shattered and eager to vanish. Near Lighthouse Cove, a village so far away that it doesn't show up on most maps, her car crashes on a cliff road. She ought to have passed away. Rather, she awakens in a stone cottage, alive and covered in bandages, gazing into the most piercing gray eyes she has ever seen.
Callum Thorne is a local mystery, doctor, and lighthouse keeper of Lighthouse Cove. He moves with the ease of someone who once ruled rooms but now hides from the outside world. He is incredibly attractive but damaged. Although he has saved Elena's life, his generosity has limits. He hardly says anything, never smiles, and makes it obvious that she should leave as soon as she is well.
However, the sole escape route has been damaged by the storm. For weeks or even months, Elena is stranded in Lighthouse Cove. And despite his icy demeanor, Callum finds it difficult to let go of the shattered lady fate brought to his door.
Elena learns three unthinkable realities as she gradually recovers in the peculiar, ageless village: In addition to being a recluse, Callum is a prisoner of his own making; the reason he never leaves is because of a devastating promise and a guilt that is ruining him; and in some way, this man who has every reason to despise the world is demonstrating to her what true love looks like—patient, selfless, and horrifyingly real.
However, Elena's former life is not over. When Marcus and Jade find out where she is, they come with cameras, attorneys, and a fresh strategy to destroy what little she still has. Callum has to decide whether to fight for the woman who has given him a reason to want to live again or to continue hiding from the horrors that have imprisoned him in this village.
She was brought here by the storm. They may both be set free at last by love.