Sometimes, you just want to belong. When Claire’s fiancé mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, seemingly destroying her chances at the belonging she’s sought, she’s prepared to sink back into the lonely life she lived before. Orphaned by a freak boating accident in her childhood, she never expected to find connection like she did with Elias, anyway. Even if sometimes, that connection seemed more like something he felt obligated to than something he wanted. Their relationship wasn’t perfect—his coldness, his secrets, his strange aversion to the ocean—but what relationship is? When Elias’s family reaches out—his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged—and invites Claire to a wake at…