Sheâs made big promises. Itâll take everything sheâs got to keep them.
Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her fatherâs freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a
ârespectable lifeâ with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, sheâs bound to the ship and her deeply grieving father more than ever.
Nick Clark is grateful to be hired on as the Mary Eliseâs first mate as he works to overcome his own guilt and othersâ censure for a fatal decision he made captaining another ship. He feels protective of the Wrights and their generous
natures, especially when a rough new sailor seems intent on causing serious trouble.
As the sailorâs misdeeds grow, tragedy swells up from another corner. Left to pick up the pieces of the commitments theyâve made to themselves and to each other, Nick and Elise will have to rely on their faith to see them through.