Sheās made big promises. Itāll take everything sheās got to keep them.
Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her fatherās 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
ārespectable lifeā with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, sheās bound to the ship and her deeply grieving father more than ever.
Nick Clark is grateful to be hired on as the Mary Eliseās first mate as he works to overcome his own guilt and othersā 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 sailorās misdeeds grow, tragedy swells up from another corner. Left to pick up the pieces of the commitments theyāve made to themselves and to each other, Nick and Elise will have to rely on their faith to see them through.