Deep Black Water

She boarded the deadliest crab boat in the Bering Sea to disappear.
He decided she wasn't going anywhere.

Lira Hollis is running out of time. With a six-figure debt to the wrong people and no identity left to hide behind, she forges her credentials and climbs aboard The Leviathan — a battered steel vessel crewed by ex-convicts, commanded by a captain no one dares to cross.

Torin Voss doesn't ask questions. He doesn't need to. He saw through her lies the moment she stepped on his gangway. He should have sent her back to shore. Instead, he kept her.

When the crew turns predatory, Torin makes his claim in the only language the Bering Sea understands: violence and absolute authority. Lira is his. Not protected — owned. Locked in his cabin, sleeping in his bunk, breathing his air. The ocean is a death sentence in every direction, and the only man standing between her and the abyss is the one she should fear most.

But the captain's door locks from the inside.
And she stopped wanting to leave weeks ago.

As the Arctic winter closes in and the crew's loyalty fractures, Lira must decide how far she's willing to fall — and whether the man who caged her is her captor or the only person who ever made the fear stop.

DEEP BLACK WATER is a standalone dark romance set aboard a crab fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. This book contains themes of captivity, psychological conditioning, extreme power imbalance, dubious consent, graphic violence, and morally complex characters. Intended for mature readers only.