When Helene was young, she dreamed of a perfect man and filled her notebooks with stories about him and about love in its purest form. But after a messy divorce, Helene has let go of such naive daydreams. Instead, she's moved to a small town in Alaska, ready to write her novel and build a new life without romance. Fate has other plans, though. She meets Sebastien Montague, a handsome fisherman who is her invented hero made flesh-down to the most idiosyncratic details. But how can a man she created for her stories possibly exist in the real world? While Helene tries to discover the truth behind his existence, Sebastien is determined to keep it from her. For he is a man scarred by serial tragedy, hiding a secret that has broken his heart time and again. Yet the shadows of his past emerge, endangering their future before it's even begun.