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Intro. To fund a cure for her mother, marine biologist Isla presents her research to Dr. Aris Thorne, the brilliant but notoriously difficult head of a remote research station, who dismisses it entirely. When all other grants are denied, Isla is forced to accept Thorne’s punishing contract as a junior assistant on her deep-sea expedition. Isolated from the world and subject to Aris’s grueling demands, Isla finds herself pulled into a dangerous current of dependency and desire.

Riptide of the Heart

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