Sailing Backward — Cherime MacFarlane

"sweet and spicy"..."smooth as butter"
Southwest of Homer Book 3
Olivia has had enough of paradise. The Bay Babe is hers, bequeathed by her father. The young woman sneaks out of the Hawaiian harbor bound for Alaska. It's a long trip single-handed for a lone woman, but an urge for home on Kachemak Bay drives her.
Adrift in a lifeboat on the Gulf of Alaska, Don wonders if he'll live to see morning. Every rotten thing he's ever done haunts him as he bails. The white sails of an approaching yacht might mean survival if he can get their attention.