Killer Remains (Skeleton Island Series Book 2)

When a marine biologist and the millionaire threatening her life's work are forced together by a killer, sparks aren't the only dangerous thing between them.

Dr. Xanthe Lazos has dedicated her career to protecting the endangered orca pods surrounding Skeleton Island, and she isn't about to let some self-made millionaire bulldoze their habitat for a luxury resort. From the moment Blaine Slater arrives on the island with his blueprints and his charm, Xanthe makes her position crystal clear — he is the enemy, and she will fight him at every turn. Blaine, accustomed to getting what he wants, finds her infuriating, relentless, and impossible to ignore.

But this small-town showdown takes a terrifying turn when Xanthe's outspoken environmental advocacy puts a target on her back. Suddenly the man she despises most is the only one standing between her and whoever wants her silenced permanently. Forced into close quarters as the threat escalates, their hostility begins fracturing in ways neither of them anticipated. Blaine's ruthless businessman exterior hides a protectiveness that shakes Xanthe to her core, and her fierce passion for something greater than herself challenges everything he thought he valued.

In a battle where the stakes are her life, the island's future, and two hearts neither of them planned to risk, the real question isn't whether they can survive the danger closing in around them — it's whether they can survive each other.