Explorer's Revenge

Five years of silence, sweat, and sheer determination have transformed Maeve from a laughingstock into the most talked-about explorer in the industry — and the Venture team is finally paying attention.

When Maeve publicly humiliated the legendary "golden boys" of professional exploration as an unknown upstart, she made enemies for life. Or so she thought. Now at the top of her game, her death-defying stunts have earned her an invitation to the most coveted contract of the decade: locating a mythical island that has swallowed every expedition sent to find it. The catch? She'll be sharing the map with the very rivals she's spent years proving wrong.

What begins as a gloriously petty grudge match through unforgiving jungle terrain quickly becomes something neither Maeve nor the Venture team anticipated. The competition dissolves into collaboration when something ancient stirs in the shadows around them — something that doesn't care about professional grudges or personal history. Surviving it will require more than skill. It will require trust.

And trust, it turns out, has a way of becoming something far more complicated.

This pulse-pounding queer adventure romance blazes a trail through danger, desire, and the electric tension of enemies forced to choose between winning and surviving — only to discover the most unexpected territory of all is the space between hatred and love. Once you start, putting it down isn't an option.