April 15, 1912: The ocean is frigid the night the Titanic sinks. Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth James wouldn’t know, because he takes the plunge for her. He is the reason she survives.

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The young crewman who saves her is kindly but stoic. To most. To Elizabeth, Oliver Cohen has the eyes of a demon and the temperament of a raven: intelligent, witty, and impossible to unbalance. Against all odds, they forge a friendship those hours on the sea and the following days aboard their rescue ship. A new life in Philadelphia awaits Elizabeth, but … a childish fear drives her to pull a promise from Oliver—one that will alter the fabric of both their worlds.

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Nearly a decade later, the Great War draws to a close, hair and hemlines shorten on the city streets, and university is within Elizabeth’s grasp. She has everything a modern woman could want. Until tragedy brings her idyllic world to a crashing halt once again.

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And for the second time, Oliver is pulled into her life.

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But theirs is a bond that transcends time and place, and so, when Elizabeth begins to feel the first flickers of attraction for her oldest friend, she worries she’ll wreck the steadiest relationship in her life. But as with iceberg formations, a cataclysmic break has to occur before a new path can be set.

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Can Elizabeth overcome a fear that’s been her driving force since she met Oliver? Or will she lose him forever…