Anchor And Agony

Two broken pasts. One deadly storm. A truth that refuses to drown. Cormac Dune has spent the last five years isolated on a handmade steel platform suspended above the Atlantic Ocean. Ninety feet below lies the coral-encrusted wreck of his father's boat—a watery grave he fiercely protects. A former Navy diver discharged for refusing a direct order, Cormac has built his life around guilt and solitude. But his fortress is threatened when Mila Voss, a brilliant and traumatized structural engineer, is sent twelve miles offshore to inspect and ultimately condemn his home. Mila carries her own ghosts. She became an engineer after a falsified inspection caused a building collapse that killed her beloved brother. Now, she works for Marchetti Maritime Engineering, dedicated to uncovering structural flaws. But as she inspects Cormac's platform, she discovers it is built with military-grade precision—and realizes her boss sent her there to rubber-stamp a fraudulent demolition order to clear the site for a corrupt development deal. When a massive Category 3 hurricane traps them together on the twenty-meter platform, the professional boundaries between them wash away. As they frantically weld and reinforce the failing steel to withstand 115-mph winds and twenty-five-foot waves, Mila uncovers a chilling truth: the powerful firm that wants to destroy Cormac's home is running a deadly conspiracy—and they are the exact same people responsible for her brother's death. With communication severed and the storm's eye closing in, Cormac and Mila must rely on each other to survive. In the tight, suffocating space of the platform's sub-deck, forced proximity ignites a powerful, undeniable attraction. Together, two people who built their lives over the graves of their loved ones must face the ultimate test of endurance and structural integrity. Will they survive the hurricane to expose the truth, or will the ocean swallow them whole?