The Dock at Low Tide (Saltwater Saints)
She came to inspect their boats. She stayed to sink their dynasty.
Three years ago, veteran marine surveyor Declan Bryce drowned inside the engine compartment of a luxury yacht at Halcyon Marina - an exclusive, old-money yacht club on the fog-shrouded Massachusetts coast. Someone watched him die. Someone walked away. The investigation was closed. No one was held accountable.
His daughter Noa never accepted the ruling.
Now a certified marine inspector operating under her own credentials, Noa has engineered a contract that places her inside Halcyon to audit the Calloway family fleet - the wealthiest and most powerful founding family of the marina. Her mission is personal. Her cover is professional. And her objective is simple: find the proof that her father's death was not an accident.
What she didn't plan for was Rhys Calloway.
The eldest Calloway son is polished, guarded, and quietly haunted by a family legacy built on silence and control. He walks Noa through the fleet with the easy confidence of a man who has never been questioned - and the careful attention of one who knows exactly what questions to avoid. Their attraction is immediate, dangerous, and tangled in everything Noa cannot afford to feel.
As she digs deeper - into maintenance logs, insurance records, falsified safety documents - Noa uncovers a web of fraud and deliberate sabotage that connects Rhys's younger brother Tate to a scheme worth millions. The family matriarch, Eleanor, controlled the marina's operations from behind closed doors. And the evidence points to a truth more devastating than negligence: Declan Bryce was never supposed to survive his last inspection.
But Noa is sleeping in the bed of the brother of the man she's building a case against. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she risks destroying the only person at Halcyon who might not deserve to be destroyed.
Set against the atmospheric backdrop of a New England harbor - granite pilings, fog-draped docks, dark water, and the constant rhythm of halyards against masts - The Dock at Low Tide is a slow-burn dark romance wrapped in a maritime thriller. It is a story about inherited grief, dangerous loyalty, the lies we tell to get close to the truth, and the wreckage left behind when the tide goes out.
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