Hold Fast: A Steamy Small-Town Enemies-to-Lovers MM Romance

By Luca Reed

Two guarded men. One failing dock. One winter to decide what's worth the risk of losing.

Wyatt Boudreau is the fixed point of Merritt Harbor - the harbormaster who's spent thirty-six years keeping a dying Maine fishing town afloat and asking nothing back. He's the one who stays. The one nobody ever chooses. And he's made his peace with that.

Then Elias Medeiros sails in around the point.

The marine surveyor from away holds the whole town's future in his hands: his report decides whether the failing co-op dock gets saved - or condemned. He's brilliant, blunt, and gone before the first hard freeze, a man who's spent a career assessing other people's harbors and never once letting himself belong to one. Wanting him is a mistake. Wanting him is a conflict of interest that could sink the report, the grant, and the entire fleet.

They should keep their distance. A nor'easter has other ideas.

As the deadline closes in and the whole town starts to talk, Wyatt and Elias have to decide what's worth the risk of losing - a harbor, a name, a heart welded shut for two generations. Because the only way to save the pier might be the one thing neither of them knows how to do: stay.

A love that could cost them everything - or finally give them a place to hold fast.

Hold Fast is a steamy, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers MM romance set on the coast of Maine, featuring:

a guarded harbormaster and the man from away who won't stay putforced proximity, one nor'easter, and only one house on the hillopposites attract - found family - hurt/comforta slow burn that pays off - and a guaranteed happily-ever-after

Book 2 of the Merritt Harbor series. Fully readable as a standalone - no cheating, no cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH8QNKQK
• ISBN13: 9798170615346
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"