Beauty and the Beach

He ruins her summer before she even unpacks her suitcase.

When Lily Calloway arrives at Sunset Cove for what should be the most restorative three months of her life, she discovers her rental cottage has been double-booked—and the insufferably gorgeous man already standing in her kitchen has no intention of leaving. Rowan Beckett is brooding, territorial, and apparently allergic to basic human warmth. Lily is sunshine and stubbornness wrapped in a sundress. They are a disaster waiting to happen.

Forced to share the cottage or lose their deposits, they draw battle lines straight down the middle of the house. His side. Her side. No exceptions.

But Sunset Cove has a way of dissolving boundaries. Late nights on the porch lead to reluctant conversations. Reluctant conversations lead to dangerous honesty. And dangerous honesty leads to Lily discovering that the walls Rowan built around himself didn't appear from nowhere—and that the version of him the world sees is nothing like the man who watches the tide come in at dawn, quietly falling apart.

She didn't come here to fix anyone. He doesn't believe he deserves to be fixed.

*Beauty and the Beach* is a slow-burn, sun-soaked romance about two people who mistake self-protection for strength—until the ocean, and each other, prove them beautifully wrong.

Some enemies never stood a chance.