Burning the Breakwater

She came back to sell a cannery. She found three wolves already living in it. Luca Marchetti hasn't been on the island since the night her mother drowned off the breakwater. She came to sign the deed and leave before dark. But the cannery's been occupied for months by the pack's three remaining brothers, and none of them intend to let her — or the town — go on pretending. Briar wants the building. Keel wants the truth: he and Luca's mother were lovers for two years, and he knows who pushed her. Hollis wants Luca, and says so on the first day. The harbor records prove the selectman drowned her mother to bury a Boston laundering scheme that ate the Marchetti name forty years ago. Luca has one night to decide whether to press charges quietly or burn the whole town's silence on the breakwater's dedication night. She burns it. A why-choose lycan romance about salt, secrets, and a town that should never have been allowed to forget.