Dont miss this heartfelt story about paths not taken.--People magazineFor fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could have been Growing up in Little Harbor, Maine, the daughter of a widowed lobsterman, Eliza Barnes could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of them. But she always knew shed leave that life behind. Now that shes married, with two kids and a cushy front-row seat to suburban country club gossip in an affluent Massachusetts town, she feels adrift. When her father injures himself in a boating accident, Eliza pushes the pause button on her own life to come to his aid. But when she arrives in Maine, she discovers her fathers situation is more dire than he let on. Elizas homecoming is further complicated by the reemergence of her first love--and memories of their shared secret. Then Eliza meets Mary Brown, a seventeen-year-old local who is at her own crossroad, and Eliza cant help but wonder what her life would have been like if shed stayed. Filled with humor, insight, summer cocktails, and gorgeous sunsets, The Captains Daughter is a compassionate novel about the life-changing choices we make and the consequences we face in their aftermath.