Linger

They vowed to be the storm. Time and circumstance tore them apart, but the sea brought them back together.When rescue diver Jason started his retirement, he thought his next adventure would be in construction. But when the eyes he's carried in ink all these years rise with the tide, he's called home—not as a sailor this time, but as a father, a husband, and the man who once loved someone who wasn't entirely human.Ginger has lived two thousand years since the age of heroes. Once called a witch, once called a monster, she's learned how to survive between worlds—on land, at sea, and in the sky. But when her past begins haunting her dreams and threatening her sons, she must face the life she left behind… and the man she never stopped loving.Set along a sun-warmed stretch of the modern Gulf Coast—where resilience grows like sea oats and every storm leaves a story behind—Linger is a solarpunk myth of second chances, saltwater love, and the quiet magic of finding home after loss.Because some loves don't fade; they linger.