Distant Shores and Deeper Currents

By S Hotchkiss

Alex Daniels thought she could outrun her demons. After blowing up her life back home, she escapes to anonymity of Tampa, Florida, a city promising a fresh start and a blank slate. Her plan: lie low at her uncle's marina, wait for college, and bury the wreckage and the memories of the man who caused it. Done playing the "good girl," Alex is finally ready to unleash the dangerous desires she's fought to suppress, to taste a forbidden sensation.

But Tampa doesn't offer a safe harbor for someone as restless as Alex.

Her new work partner, Jaylin, is full of loathing and resentment, seeing in her everything he despises. He's angry, volatile, and dangerously alluring to her. Instead of retreating, Alex finds herself drawn to the heat, provoked by his anger and animosity, she ignites a toxic game of seduction and psychological warfare. Every barbed word, every scorching glance, every forbidden touch pushes them closer to a volatile edge that promises a release that will be explosive and destructive.

As Alex plunges deeper into her new untethered life, chasing the thrill of raw passion and dark choices. But the ghosts she fled are never far behind. The intense connection she swore to sever is closer than she thinks, a magnetic pull that defies distance and reason. Tides may recede, but they always return.

In this scorching sequel to Salt Breezes and Changing Tides, Alex's desperate search for freedom leads her into a treacherous current of self-discovery, where the only thing more dangerous than the men who claim her attention, are the depths of the desires she's uncovering within herself. She wanted to explore her darkest fantasies, but she's about to learn that some desires, once unleashed, demand a price.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FY4ZTCCN
• ISBN13: 9798271992407
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"