Jan Petersen only wanted to celebrate his grandmother's birthday on Heligoland. But when the weather turns and a mysterious encounter aboard a ferry throws him off balance, sending him tumbling into the waves, he suddenly finds himself in another time—in 1792, in a remote fishing village. And that's just the beginning. Again and again, Jan is carried by the waves into new eras: from the harsh world of whalers to the perilous voyages of smugglers during Napoleon's time. At his side is Alva, a young woman who seems both enigmatic and familiar to Jan, and whose fate appears to be mysteriously intertwined with his own. What begins as a desperate attempt to return to his own time becomes a journey filled with moving encounters, surprising revelations—and a love that seems to transcend space and time. A captivating novel about the sea, life, and faith. New product