Nathan Archer was born into violence. Raised in Glasgow's criminal underworld, he fought to escape his father's brutal legacy and build a quiet life with Emma, the woman who saved him from himself.

On their honeymoon, the plane went down.

Nathan wakes on a remote island with other survivors. The wreckage is scattered, the ocean already erasing what happened, and Emma is nowhere. There is no time for grief. Only heat, hunger, and the knowledge that no one is coming.

Not everyone on the island wants rescue. Forced to endure and defend himself, Nathan feels something he has spent his life avoiding begin to surface. Not skill. Not confidence. A memory of violence. A capacity he has never understood.

To survive, he must use it without letting it consume him.

And the island is only the beginning.

A story about what remains of us when everything gentle is stripped away, and whether love can hold its shape in the face of violence.