Pier And Possess

The sea doesn't ask permission to take what it wants, and neither did he. The difference is, I learned to breathe underwater.

Dedicated CPS caseworker Briar Calloway thinks she's safe conducting a routine welfare check in the backcountry of Sugarloaf Key, but she has no idea she is already mine. Eight months ago, I engineered this trap, routing an anonymous report directly to her desk because three years ago, her signature on a placement form cost my four year old niece her life. I didn't bring her to my isolated fishing pontoon to hurt her, I brought her for a reckoning. When I cut her mooring line and let her state skiff drift into the mangrove maze, Briar sets the rules, and the unvarnished truth erodes our defenses. Beneath her caseworker facade is a survivor of the same broken machinery that destroyed my family. Then Hurricane Valeria makes a direct hit on our coordinates, testing our bodies against roaring winds and horizontal rain. Bound by a raw, shared grief and an all consuming love built in the ruins of the storm, we are going after the system that ruined us, and this time, we aren't following the rules.