Down With The Ship

### Chloe Jory

She would rather swim to shore than spend one more minute with him.

When marine biologist Nora Callaway is forced to share a research vessel with cocky rival oceanographer Declan Marsh for a three-week expedition, she has a plan: stay professional, stay focused, and stay as far from his insufferable smirk as the sixty-foot boat will allow. He stole her grant funding. He took credit for her research. She has spent two years perfecting her hatred of him, and she has no intention of letting the open ocean ruin it.

Declan has his own version of events—one that makes him considerably less villainous—and he isn't shy about sharing it.

Trapped between salt water and close quarters, their arguments shift into something more dangerous than contempt. Every heated debate bleeds into charged silence. Every accidental touch lingers longer than it should. Nora starts to wonder if she misread the evidence, if the story she told herself about Declan Marsh has holes in it wide enough to sink a ship.

But trusting him means risking everything she's rebuilt. And the closer they get to shore, the closer she gets to losing him to the life waiting on dry land.

Some rivalries burn. Some simmer. This one threatens to pull them both under—and Nora is terrified she'll let it.