Since childhood, Jill Marchmont lived with her parents in a house on the ocean coast. The mother died early, the girl’s upbringing and education was carried out by her father, a famous biologist. On the day of her father's death, Jill vowed to continue his research into marine and coastal fauna. However, the task turned out to be more difficult than she imagined; without her father’s help, many questions remained unanswered. And it turned out to be even more difficult to get used to loneliness, the feeling of being cut off from the whole world. Jill’s loneliness ended the moment she had to shelter a stranger in her cottage who was wounded during a storm...