On the rugged coast of Oregon, secrets wash ashore with the tide.

After learning that her ex-boyfriend, now serving time in prison, may have put a target on her back, Marti Goshay escapes to Wild Rose Point for peace, a place to hide, and enough distance to figure out what needs to be her next move in order to survive.

What she doesn’t expect is Dante Avera.

Her neighbor is devastatingly handsome, striking, and impossible to ignore. His very presence is as intoxicating as the ocean itself. Every morning, Marti finds herself watching him swim beneath the cold gray dawn, her body heating with a hunger she thought fear and mistrust had long ago stolen from her.

Dante has come to Wild Rose Point as a retreat from the dangerous world he comes from, a world tied to wealth, power, and a family legacy rooted deep within a powerful Sicilian Mafia family.

The last thing he expected was to fall in love. When someone comes to Wild Rose Point determined to silence Marti for good, Dante is prepared to protect the woman he loves because where he comes from, threats aren’t handled with warnings.

They’re buried.

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