I came to the islands to escape my past.

Instead, I found my future.

I’m Gavin Williams, a billionaire, broken ex-husband and restless soul.

Kainani is an untouched island beauty, promised to another by vows older than memory.

We should have been nothing but strangers.

But the ocean had other plans.

A storm. A near-death.

Her hands healing me with ancient remedies, her eyes pulling me into a world where tradition

rules and love is a dangerous legend.

She is almost half my age, bound by sacred promises, and terrified of the myth of the woman who gave her heart to a stranger and was destroyed.

Yet every glance, every touch, sets fire to the fate written for us.

Her village sees me as an outsider.

Her father forbids me.

Her fiancé would kill me.

But paradise has claimed me.

And I would defy gods, men, and destiny itself for one chance to keep her.

Because once you’ve tasted forever in a woman’s arms…