The Billionaire's Last Promise

By Jennifer Eve

She told him to leave. But he came back anyway.

Joss Marlowe has spent three years rebuilding her grandfather's lighthouse with her own hands, her own money, and absolutely no help from anyone, because that is how Marloweswomen survive. They build. They stay. They do not fall for charming strangers who show up on their pier with expensive coats and camera phones and no last name to speak of.

Sebastian is very good at being a charming stranger. What he is less good at is telling the truth, specifically the truth about who he is, who he works for, and the fact that the lighthouse Joss is pouring her entire life into sits directly in the path of the acquisition his dead brother's dying wish depends on.

He tells himself it is temporary. He will close the deal, keep the promise, and leave before it gets complicated.

Then it gets complicated.

Because somewhere between learning to hold a plumb line steady and watching the sunset turn the harbor gold, Sebastian stops calculating what the lighthouse is worth and starts understanding what it means. And Joss, who swore she was done letting people past the careful walls she built after the last man who chose his career over her heart, finds herself doing the one thing she promised she would never do again. Hoping

But when the truth finally surfaces, and it always does, it brings with it something neither of them saw coming: a forty-year-old betrayal that ties their families together in ways that make the lighthouse the least complicated thing standing between them.

Sebastian has spent eighteen months keeping a promise to a man who can no longer tell him whether he is keeping it right. Joss has spent three years building something the world keeps trying to take away from her. And somewhere on a cliff above a harbor that is running out of time, two people who should never have trusted each other have to decide whether what they have built together is worth burning everything else down to keep.

Some secrets protect you. While some promises break you.

And some lighthouses, if you are lucky enough to find them, teach you exactly what you have been worth all along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDZJRZ9B
• ISBN13: 9798192090800
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"