Helm And Havoc

The safest passage is the one you never take.

Reverie Saint-James is a Homeland Security agent with a badge, a solid cover story, and a loaded weapon. Her mission: board The Temperance and take down Orion Cade, a ruthless smuggler who ferries desperate refugees across the unforgiving Gulf of Mexico. But Orion is a man who reads the ocean—and the people on it—with terrifying precision. He dismantles her cover on the very first night, pockets her badge, and claims her as his own.

Trapped on a fifty-foot sailboat with nowhere to run, Rev is entirely at the mercy of a man who controls the water, the food, and every exit. But when a catastrophic hurricane named Vera dismasts the boat, kills the engine, and leaves them drifting in violent waters, the strict lines between captor and captive begin to blur. As they fight side-by-side to keep the sinking hull afloat and deliver a passenger's baby in the storm's aftermath, Rev realizes the system she swore to protect is the true enemy. And the dangerous smuggler she came to destroy might be the only honest man left.

To survive, she will have to surrender the only thing she has left: herself.