Bound and Tide: Villains and Virtues

He is everything she was trained to destroy—and the only person who has ever made her feel alive.

When duty and desire collide, the wreckage is spectacular. She lives by a rigid moral code, a weapon honed by principle and sacrifice. He operates in the shadows where rules dissolve into convenience, where the end always justifies the means. They shouldn't share the same air, let alone the same dangerous mission that keeps throwing them together, bound by circumstance and something far more treacherous.

The tension between them is its own kind of war. Every argument crackles with awareness. Every moment of forced proximity strips another layer from their carefully constructed hatred, revealing something raw and undeniable underneath. He challenges every conviction she holds sacred. She makes him question whether his darkness is something he chose—or something he could choose to leave behind.

But virtue and villainy aren't opposites. They're two sides of the same desperate human need: to be seen completely and loved anyway.

The tide doesn't ask permission before it pulls you under.

*Bound and Tide* is a slow-burn, high-tension romance that refuses to let either its hero or heroine take the easy road. Because the most dangerous thing between enemies isn't the battle—it's the moment one of them stops fighting.

Some bonds are forged in conflict. The strongest ones are forged in surrender.