Salt air, old magic, and a family bound across two centuries.

Lucy Wilson didn’t know time travel ran in her blood—until her mother disappeared.

In a single day, forensic genealogist Lucy loses her apartment, her career, and the boyfriend who forgot to mention he came from a Mafia family.

Then Creek Island calls her home. Not by phone. Not by letter. It calls her.

The Georgia sea island where her family has lived for two centuries was once part of Spanish Florida—a haven for privateers and pirates. Now her mother has vanished without a trace, just as a stranger surfaces with a two-hundred-year-old deed that could take the island from everyone who lives there.

Untrained, unprepared, and seriously underdressed, Lucy follows her mother’s trail into the past—and lands in a lawless smugglers’ port in 1814, where she can trust no one. Not the privateers. Not the smugglers. And definitely not the maddeningly attractive historian working for the enemy—who keeps appearing exactly when she needs him.

Now Lucy must find her mother and unravel a mystery two centuries in the making—before the past claims them both and Creek Island falls.

But the past holds tight to its secrets.

And time is running out.