GILDED TIDESA four-day luxury cruise through the storm-tossed Atlantic was supposed to be the ultimate end-of-summer playground for eleven ultra-wealthy socialites. Aboard the High Sovereign—a 180-foot, tri-deck superyacht owned by the powerful Maynard dynasty—the champagne flows like water, old rivalries ignite, and unspoken desires threaten to boil over.
Coast Maynard, twenty-four-year-old heir to a billion-dollar shipping empire, has only ever cared about one thing: Legacy Harding. Brilliant, aristocratic, and fiercely independent, twenty-two-year-old Legacy has spent years keeping Coast at arm’s length, wary of his dark, all-consuming possessiveness. But when an unseasonal gale traps the yacht eighty miles off the eastern seaboard, cutting power, communications, and emergency transponders, the glittering party descends into an inescapable abattoir.
One by one, the elite guests are methodically hunted, slaughtered, and staged across the ship’s luxurious decks by a masked killer who knows their darkest secrets. As paranoia turns friend against friend, Coast will tear through flesh and bone to keep Legacy alive. But in a locked-room floating labyrinth where everyone has a motive and nowhere is safe, Coast is about to learn that the woman he loves doesn't need to be saved—she is the deadliest weapon on board.
Gilded Tides is a dark romantic suspense and slasher whodunit set entirely aboard a claustrophobic mega-yacht. It features an obsessive, fiercely protective alpha hero and a brilliant, formidable heroine who matches him in wit, courage, and lethal resolve.
This novel contains graphic fictional violence, gruesome murder scenes, blood, dismemberment, explicit consensual adult sexuality, coarse language, and psychological suspense. All sexual encounters are between consenting adults (18+). Reader discretion is strongly advised.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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