Copper and Covet

"There are men who destroy for a living and love like they're building something from the wreckage. You'll know him by the copper on his hands and the way he tears everything down except you."

I came to claim what was mine. Instead, I found him.

Sable Merritt didn't expect her inheritance to be easy. But she certainly didn't expect to find a silent, towering stranger systematically tearing down her father's legacy. Landry Cross is a man who knows how structures break. He's cold, efficient, and holds a demolition permit signed by a dead man. He also holds my phone, my camera, and every key to my exit.

When a brutal tropical storm slams into the Texas coast, the roads wash out and the bridge collapses. Trapped together inside a ten-by-twenty shipping container nested within a decaying, toxic copper plant, our professional battle becomes a claustrophobic fight for survival.

In the stifling heat, distance becomes a luxury we can no longer afford.

Landry is a fortress of secrets. He touches his scarred arm when he lies, and he knows more about my family's ruin than he's willing to admit. Yet, as the storm tears the roof from the walls, his heavy, copper-stained hands are the only things keeping me safe from the falling steel.

As the floodwaters rise and the secrets unravel, I find myself caught in the ultimate calculation: Is the man holding me in the dark my protector, or the final piece of wreckage that will destroy me completely?