The captain of a merchant ship rescues a slave girl, broken and terrified, from the clutches of his enemy during a pirate attack. He quickly realizes she has no family, can't speak, and appears to have very little independence. As captain, he doesn't have the time to provide the care she needs. However, when the girl refuses to be sperated from him, even for the gentle care of an old woman on land, he marries her and brings her aboard his ship under his protection, hoping to give her the time and safety to heal. But pushing the boundaries of her trauma is harder on both of them than he ever imagined. Can he help her face her fears and find true freedom or will she spend the rest of her life a prisoner of her own mind? ─────────────────────────────────── NEW CHAPTERS FRIDAYS AT 10 AM PDT | THROUGH NOV 6 ─────────────────────────────────── T R O P E S: ⚓ Marriage Of Convenience 💍 ⚓ Trauma / Mutism 😶 ⚓ Healing ❤️‍🩹 ⚓ Hurt-Comfort 🥰 ⚓ Nautical ⛵ ⚓ No Spice 🌶️ ⚓ HEA 💕

Four years ago, Jacob JJ Harrens kissed me on the blue bench at Pine-Hollow Pond, called me little Lou, and left Brookside Lane before I could decide if it meant everything or nothing. I spent the next years pretending one summer could not follow me around like a secret I was too embarrassed to admit I kept. Then JJ comes back after his father's death - older, quieter, impossible to read - and suddenly the boy I tried to forget is standing too close, remembering too much, and making every almost feel dangerous. With school two weeks away and Sarah asking questions I am not ready to answer, I know JJ did not come back for me... so why does it feel like he remembers the same story?

[Book #1 in Series] [COMPLETED] Mia and her friends are celebrating their final summer before "adulting" with a trip to Australia. On a whim, they end up in Byron Bay after a few weeks in Sydney and Mia meets an incredibly handsome local named Finn. They spend a whirlwind week together with their friends but agree to end things at the end of the week to focus on their careers. Little do they know, their paths would cross again sooner than expected. A love-at-first-sight story with a sprinkle of enemies-to-lovers, second-chance and forced-proximity for the side characters. Hannah and Nate's story coming next!

One last trip with her family before she goes to University. Her intentions for this trip were to spend every minute making memories and savouring the last moments she'd get with her family before she moved away. She did this, just not with who she had planned. In the Italian sun it's easy to make rash decisions and to have a lapse in judgement. Especially when a man, you've only just met, comes into play. When he's showing you the island and teaching you Italian, how can you not fall madly in love? With three weeks to spend, will she let herself fall head over heels for a guy she will most likely never see again, or will she stick with her former plan and come to her senses?

When Ella Jones' twenty-first birthday ends with a bang - literally - she never imagined it would be with her best friend since freshman year, Ryan Owen. A year later, after their so called "mistake", they're still best friends and about to rock their Senior year at the University of San Francisco. But when Ryan returns from spending a summer in Australia and brings back a friend, Liam George, who takes an immediate liking to Ella, Ryan starts to question the Aussie's intentions with his best friend. The trouble is, Ryan has a girlfriend of his own, and Ella and Ryan swore they would never cross that line again - until they do. They try not to let their second slip up affect their friendship, but when Spring Break forces them to vacation under the same roof; and Ryan's ex walks back into his life, Ella is shocked by a fierce stab of possessiveness. And when Ella continues to see Liam, Ryan finds himself plagued by unfamiliar jealousy. With their friendship strained for the first time, Ella and Ryan face an alarming truth: Maybe they can't be just friends. Maybe they are falling faster than expected. And maybe, deep down, they want to.