catarinekemper
- If you get us killed, Hurley, I will personally haunt you for the rest of your miserable afterlife.
- Sweetheart, if we get killed, I'll be too busy buying you a drink in hell to care.
Florence Thorne is a New York academic in the year of 1933, who is far more comfortable sorting dusty museum archives than dodging jungle traps. But when her obsessive scientist father vanishes into the uncharted depths of the Congo, Flora has no choice but to swap her ink-stained pens for a pair of field boots.
Her rescue mission goes disastrously wrong when she is left stranded in the green wilderness. Lost, desperate, and definitely not dressed for a trek, she bumps into Jack Hurley (for her luck... Or not).
Jack is a rugged, charismatic, and entirely reckless Australian outfitter with a smirk that should be classified as a hazard. He is broke, incredibly charming, and hunting down the exact same ancient, glowing relic her father is.
She thinks he's a crude, reckless brute who doesn't take a single thing seriously while he thinks she's a rigid, rule-following little scholar who won't survive a week in his shoes.
To survive the wilderness, criminals, saboteurs and the secrets of a hidden waterfall, this unlikely duo must work together.
Can a sharp-witted nerdy girl and a reckless Aussie survive the jungle... And each other?
✨ PEEK ✨
✦ 1930s Pulp Adventure Vibes
✦ Opposites Attract / Nerdy Girl x Reckless Guy
✦ Strong, Charismatic Australian Guy (With plenty of dry Aussie humor)
✦ Enemies-to-Lovers & Slow Burn Romance (not that slow tho ;))
✦ Forced Proximity (Only one tree-canopy bed!)
✦ Moral Gray Villains & Dangerous Ancient Mysteries