Prosperous merchant Elliot Bishop built a safe life in Port Townsend. The family business is thriving, he's engaged to be married, and he's not about to let his rogue stepbrother's sudden return home disrupt his plans. But when his fiancée disappears under the same mysterious circumstances as his mother did years ago, and his childhood nightmares about octopuses reoccur, Elliot senses someone-or something-took both women, and now it's after him.Captain Declan Fitzgerald finally has his own ship and crew, but he's still governed by his father's obsession, hunting the thing that took his stepmother, and now Elliot's fiancée. Declan will protect Elliot from whatever's calling him from the ocean's depths, even as doing so reignites his feelings for Elliot.As Elliot surrenders to the call of the deep, he gives in to Declan, and undergoes a transformation beyond his childhood nightmares. Sex with the new Elliot is better than Declan imagined, in ways he never dreamed. Declan will sacrifice everything for Elliot, but what must Elliot give up to choose Declan?