Still Water

A wildlife photographer hiding from a stalker. A harbor master carrying a guilt that could drown them both. An island that knows more than it's telling.

Sylvie Ashford arrived on Blackthorn Island with a new name, a used camera, and the specific hypervigilance of a woman who has been running for two years. She is not here to be found. She is here to disappear — into the fog, into the wildlife, into the kind of silence that does not ask questions.

Jonah Voss is the harbor master. He notices everything — every boat, every tide, every face that steps off the ferry. He noticed Sylvie. He has not stopped noticing. But Jonah carries a guilt from five years ago that he has never spoken out loud, and the distance he keeps from people is not indifference. It is penance.

The island is small. The fog is constant. And when Sylvie's past follows her to Blackthorn, the only person standing between her and the man who will not stop looking for her is a harbor master who has spent five years watching the water and who has just found the first person worth watching instead.

Trust is the most dangerous thing you can offer. It is also the only thing worth offering.

Still Water is Book 1 in The Blackthorn Files, a five-book interconnected romantic suspense series set on a Pacific Northwest island where every book reveals more of a conspiracy that began decades ago. Dual third-person POV. Medium heat. Trust earned by the last page.

Stalker romance (handled with care). Protective hero. She-saves-herself heroine. Island setting. Atmospheric suspense. The kind of book you read in one sitting with the lights on.

For fans of atmospheric romantic suspense, slow-burn protector hero, and suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

Free with this complete series.