Wake And Wrath - Paperback

"He didn't save me from drowning. He drowned with me and called it breathing."

Maren Aldridge is trapped. To pay off her brother's massive $40,000 debt to a ruthless seafood processor, she signs a napkin contract and becomes the only female cook aboard the Vargr, a rusted Alaskan crab boat. It's a grueling three-week sentence in the middle of the unforgiving North Pacific. But the real danger isn't the icy water, the grueling labor, or the volatile all-male crew. It's the captain.

Sable "Wraith" Colter is a man forged by cold water and grief. Silent, commanding, and heavily scarred, he runs his ship with obsessive control to ensure no one under his command ever dies again. He also has the exact GPS coordinates of his father's watery grave tattooed across his swollen knuckles.

When a massive, violent storm named the "Godmother" hits and the crew's intentions turn dangerous, Wraith claims Maren as his own-locking her in his private, diesel-scented cabin behind fourteen steel bolts. Maren thinks she's just collateral damage in a brutal world. She doesn't know she's actually a pawn in Wraith's years-long quest for vengeance against the men who killed his father.

In the tight confines of the captain's quarters, the lines between protector and captor blur. As the storm rages outside, a darker, more consuming force builds inside the cabin. Wraith is a man who refuses to let go of anything he grips-and he has just decided he's never letting go of her.