Stronger than the Sea

To regain guardianship of her younger brother, trainee psychologist Louisa must complete her practical year in Kodiak, Alaska, a small Coast Guard town. There she is assigned to help Patrick, a closed-off Coast Guard officer, work through the aftermath of a traumatic incident.

As Louisa learns more about Patrick's dark past, his story gets under her skin, and the professional distance she needs to maintain starts to slip. Their growing feelings put both her career and her heart at risk. Stronger than the Sea, the first book in Anna Augustin's Alaskan Coast Guards series, is a forbidden-romance novel set against Alaska's rugged coast, pairing a slow-building relationship with themes of trauma and recovery.