Mercy Sterling has closed two hundred eleven fraud files without once caring who cried. File two hundred twelve should be the fastest denial of her career: a charter captain who confessed in writing to sailing his insured boat into a storm to fight wolves. Then she meets the boat's dock. And the dock's manager.
Rhys Hollister keeps color-coded ledgers, squares crooked coasters, and holds fourteen years of records that could clear his twin — or sink him. He has never once rounded a number, and he is not handing his family's history to the woman who grounded their boat. But the island has no roads, the fishing opener won't wait, and the closer Mercy gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that the real fraud wears her own company's letterhead.
Six weeks. One back office. Two people who built their whole lives out of rules, discovering the one thing no system can guarantee.
She can save his family or her career. He can protect his secret or his heart. Neither of them rounds.
✓ Enemies to Lovers
✓ Forced Proximity
✓ Slow Burn
✓ Grump Meets Grump
✓ Small-Town Found Family
✓ Competence as Courtship
✓ Grand Gesture
Heat Level: Sweet with heat (one emotion-first scene)
Vibes: Witty, Emotional, Heartwarming
Setting: Port Promise, a no-road island in Southeast Alaska
Ending: HEA, Interconnected Standalone (Port Promise, Book 4)
Perfect for fans of: Virgin River, Northern Exposure, and readers who love a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers where the paperwork is a love language
Some hearts balance to the penny.
Genre: Romance
Rhys Hollister keeps color-coded ledgers, squares crooked coasters, and holds fourteen years of records that could clear his twin — or sink him. He has never once rounded a number, and he is not handing his family's history to the woman who grounded their boat. But the island has no roads, the fishing opener won't wait, and the closer Mercy gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that the real fraud wears her own company's letterhead.
Six weeks. One back office. Two people who built their whole lives out of rules, discovering the one thing no system can guarantee.
She can save his family or her career. He can protect his secret or his heart. Neither of them rounds.
✓ Enemies to Lovers
✓ Forced Proximity
✓ Slow Burn
✓ Grump Meets Grump
✓ Small-Town Found Family
✓ Competence as Courtship
✓ Grand Gesture
Heat Level: Sweet with heat (one emotion-first scene)
Vibes: Witty, Emotional, Heartwarming
Setting: Port Promise, a no-road island in Southeast Alaska
Ending: HEA, Interconnected Standalone (Port Promise, Book 4)
Perfect for fans of: Virgin River, Northern Exposure, and readers who love a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers where the paperwork is a love language
Some hearts balance to the penny.
Genre: Romance
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