I flew in to bury this town.
One report, and Cala Sirena’s working harbor gets carved into resorts. I’ve done it a dozen times. I don’t get charmed. I win.
Then they sent him.
Knox. The club’s smooth-talking road captain — all easy smiles over something a lot harder. His job is to make me fall for this place. My job is to prove it’s already dead.
I saw through him in under a minute. I told him so.
What I didn’t plan on was the heatwave. The blackout. One locked guesthouse, two impossible people, and a single hallway that gets shorter every night the power stays out.
He thinks he’s steering me. I think I’m winning.
We’re both wrong.
The hottest summer on record is about to break — and so is every rule I came here with.
What happens when the woman who never loses finally wants to?
