Five years ago, Cole Darren kissed Lena Calloway goodbye at dawn and never came back. Tonight he walks into her motel lobby and asks for a room.

Lena has built a small, safe life on the edge of Mercy Bay — a failing motel, a stuck register, no one close enough to leave her again. She has exactly one rule for the man who shattered her: one night, cash upfront, gone by morning.

But Cole didn't come back for her. He came back for her. The job that pulled him away five years ago left a target on everyone he ever loved, and the men hunting him have already been spotted twelve miles south of town.

Now the only way to keep Lena alive is to tell her the truth she's spent five years hating him for — and to stay close while the danger closes in. A motel. A safe house. A handful of days. And five years of wanting neither of them ever managed to bury.

Trusting him could get her killed. It might also be the only thing that saves them both.

Wreckage of Us is a steamy, second-chance romantic suspense with a protector hero, forced proximity, and a hard-won happy ending. A complete standalone.

The tide's turning in Mercy Bay. Start reading tonight.