Her given name might be Francesca Hampton...but she's always been Chessie.

Ever since she was a young girl, she's preferred walking barefoot on the wet sand. You know - the type that's been drenched by the ocean, the type that lies at the intersection of two forces colliding. She'd always been drawn to the forces of nature.

So, at 18, she ran away from the rigid expectations of Connecticut living, leaving behind expectations to become a lawyer like the rest of her family and living a humdrum life where she went to the same restaurants with the same group of people on the same night every week.

She left it behind when she realized that he fit perfectly in a world where she didn't belong.

William "Gui" (short for Guillaume) Peterson had it all.

In college, he built an app that he quietly sold for billions of dollars. Now, he spends his time researching and writing about the evolution of man’s social customs. Okay, he was a nerd. But, what other people found boring excited Gui.

Yes, he loved his work. His work was his life. So, it’s only natural that he would marry Penny Hardrew, his research partner from Harvard. Penny might’ve been a bit uptight and snobby, but she was reliable. Gui knew her. He knew she wanted to be with him. And he knew she wouldn’t break his heart.

No, he would never let any woman break his heart again. Years ago, he sealed his heart after giving it away whole and having it returned back to him in pieces - by a beautiful girl he could never figure out; a girl who wanted to be as free as the sea.

Gui and Chessie discover that old love can be new again.

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