The Tide Keeper's Secret
A Coastal Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

When a Category Two hurricane bears down on the Outer Banks, marine biologist Cora Diaz has forty-eight hours to pull eighteen acoustic monitors from the treacherous Devil's Shoal—data that could halt a destructive dredging project and save the research institute her father spent his life building. The only vessel capable of the job belongs to Julian Vance, the rugged salvage diver whose family feud with the Diaz name runs as deep as the Hatteras Trench. He's the last man she'd ever ask for help, and the only one who can get her through the storm.

Seven thousand five hundred dollars buys his crane, his crew, and his silence—but not his trust. As they battle thirty-foot swells and a falling barometer, old wounds resurface alongside the lethal current: the failed salvage job that ruined both their fathers, the cheap shackles that sheared under pressure, the lawsuits that left Cora's inheritance in ruins and Julian's family drowning in debt. Yet beneath the hatred simmers something far more dangerous—the memory of a summer kiss, the heat of a rivalry that always felt too personal, the terrifying realization that the man she despises is the only one who truly sees her.

With each dive into the black, boiling water, the storm tightens its grip and the line between survival and surrender dissolves. Julian knows the shoal will kill them if they hesitate; Cora knows the data will vanish if they don't. But the deepest danger isn't the hurricane bearing down on them—it's the truth rising from the depths about what really happened the night their fathers' partnership sank, and whether two people built on wreckage can finally build something that lasts.