Winner: 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ romance. Low tides threw up all kinds of unexpected and random treasures. Wedding bands, hauls of driftwood, old bones worn smooth. Jaded oyster fisherman, Nico La Forge, had seen them all. Or so he believed. Until cold, bedraggled, beautiful Éti Salvador washed up on the shore. Nico had never been in love. Wasn’t even looking for love. With the body of a revolutionary hero and the face of the devil, Nico was the sort of man your mother warned you to stay away from. But then, Nico had never come across an extraordinary individual like Éti Salvador before, divebombing the emotional wasteland of his heart and shaking it like a maraca. And, overnight, everything changed. (This queer romance features a relationship between a pansexual man and a trans woman.)