Sandra Doyle's affair with her boss, Pat, has been running hot and fast—too fast for Sandy's liking. All she wants is to spend some real time together, and a sales conference on the coast seems like the perfect opportunity. Yet Pat cuts their stolent moments short once again when he charters a fishing expedition, trying to land his very first fish.

Sandy's a native of Prince Edward Island; being on the deck of a boat is old hat to her. But she's taken by surprise by the windswept, blue-eyed Captain Aiden Foley, who seems to understand her with a sailor's sixth sense. Storms blow up fast on the open sea, and a fight with Pat lets Sandy realize that all the sharks aren't in the water. But in the ebb tide she discovers that fishermen are born patient—as are good lovers...