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Title: The Portside Pact: A Coastliner's Secrets & Stolen Summers
Genre: YA Contemporary Mystery / High-Stakes Rivalry / Romantic Drama
Setting: The foggy docks and sun-bleached marshes of Shem Creek, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Blurb:
To the wealthy elite of Mount Pleasant, the summer is a playground of multi-million-dollar yachts, exclusive yacht clubs, and effortless luxury. They are The Coastliners-led by Marina, a legacy heiress trapped by her father's crushing expectations, and Leo, the protective golden boy fiercely guarding their elite inner circle.
To Julian and his local dock crew, the summer means grueling labor, grease-stained shirts, and a desperate race against time to save his family's struggling shipyard from a looming bank foreclosure. The line between the "rich kids" and the "townies" is drawn deep in the marsh mud, fueled by a legendary, bitter rivalry.
But when a blind joyride in a midnight gale goes horribly wrong, those two worlds collide in a screech of tearing fiberglass.
Desperate to hide the ruined hull of her father's prized luxury boat before a strict Monday morning deadline, Marina strikes a dangerous deal with the one guy she's supposed to hate: Julian. The terms of The Portside Pact are simple: fifty thousand dollars in cold cash, an illicit legal document stolen from her father's desk, and absolute, airtight secrecy. No cops, no parents, no paper trail.
But as the hydraulic lifts fail and the county sheriff closes in, a terrifying truth surfaces from the depths of the channel. The wreck wasn't an accident, and the hidden rocks hide a dark, fifty-year-old conspiracy that could ruin the town's most powerful families.
Bound together by a web of felonies and stolen fortunes, Julian and Marina must navigate a high-stakes game where trust is a liability, secrets are currency, and breaking the pact means losing everything.