Someone Else's Ocean

Kate Stewart

Childhood friends Koti and Ian reunite as adults on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, each fleeing a personal crisis—her crippling anxiety after a career-ending panic attack, his shattered world after a devastating divorce. Forced back into close proximity as neighbors, their old friendship curdles into prickly tension before slowly reigniting into something deeper. It's a slow-burn, angst-heavy summer romance about two wounded people learning to rebuild themselves before they can build a life together.