Clean Break

Romantic Suspense - Women's Fiction - Maritime Adventure

He threw her out with nothing. He never imagined she would inherit the one harbor his empire could not survive without.

The morning her divorce is finalized, Claire Adams is cast out of Villa Delacroix, stripped of her savings, and left with nothing but her grandmother's battered conservation tools. Her husband has stolen their money, pawned her mother's sapphire, and chosen his mistress over the woman who stood beside him for three years.

But Claire is not as powerless as he believes.

A sealed inheritance reveals her family's secret ownership of Bastion Pier Seven, the deepest commercial harbor on the island. Suddenly, the shipping dynasty that humiliated her is desperate to seize the very property she now controls.

Armed with an archivist's eye for forgery and an unshakable command of historical documents, Claire begins dismantling her former husband's empire one fraudulent record at a time. Every exposed lie brings her closer to justice-and pushes a ruthless enemy toward increasingly dangerous acts of desperation.

At her side stands Jonathan Burke, the formidable Maritime Provost sworn to uphold the harbor's ancient laws. He can protect her from the men who want her silenced, but his own vows forbid the personal bond neither of them can easily deny.

As forged charters, financial crimes, and violent attacks threaten everything she has reclaimed, Claire must decide how much she is willing to risk to protect her inheritance-and whether trusting another person means surrendering the independence she fought so hard to regain.

A gripping blend of romantic suspense, maritime intrigue, and female empowerment, this novel delivers a determined heroine, a fiercely protective hero, and a deeply satisfying journey from betrayal to justice.