SilasI run the Tidewater Inn on a coast that eats men like me alive. The roof leaks, the inspector’s coming, and thanks to one viral hit piece, my bookings are circling the drain.Then the man who wrote it walks back through my door.Kai O’Connell. Bright jacket. Brighter smile. Travel blogger with ninety-three thousand followers and one review that nearly sank my family’s legacy. He swears he’s here to make it right. I swear I don’t believe him.Seafoam Harbor doesn’t care about our pride... moreSilasI run the Tidewater Inn on a coast that eats men like me alive. The roof leaks, the inspector’s coming, and thanks to one viral hit piece, my bookings are circling the drain.Then the man who wrote it walks back through my door.Kai O’Connell. Bright jacket. Brighter smile. Travel blogger with ninety-three thousand followers and one review that nearly sank my family’s legacy. He swears he’s here to make it right. I swear I don’t believe him.Seafoam Harbor doesn’t care about our pride. A storm is bearing down, the power dies, and my inn becomes a shelter for half the town. Kai works beside me in the floodwater, documents the truth I couldn’t afford to show, and—for one impossible night—we stop pretending we don’t want each other.I’m sixty thousand short, forty-one thousand due, and one breath away from losing everything. Kai says we can save the inn, the town’s heartbeat, maybe even me. I don’t do miracles. He doesn’t do apologies.We’re about to do both.Grumpy/competent innkeeper x reformed critic. Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, found family, slow burn that turns blistering when the lights go out, and a hard-won happy ending that feels like sunrise after the storm. less
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